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Catalogue 111 Summer 2014
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CATALOGUE 111 Summer 2014
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De Búrca Ra re Books 1. ADAMS, Benjamin William. D.D. History and Description of Santry and Cloghran Parishes, County Dublin. Illustrated. London: Mitchell & Hughes, 1883. pp. viii, 144. Brown pebbled cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Biographical details of the author in ink on front endpaper. Some scoring in pencil and notes on lower pastedown. A fine copy. Very scarce. €325 COPAC locates 3 copies only.
2. À KEMPIS, Thomas. The Christian's Pattern : or, a Treatise of the Imitation of Jesus Christ. In four books. Written originally in Latin by Thomas à Kempis. Now render'd into English. To which are added, Meditations and prayers for sick persons. By George Stanhope. The twelfth edition. Dublin: Printed by and for George Grierson, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, at the King's Arms and Two Bibles in Essex-Street, 1751. pp. [12], 339, [3], 45, [1]. Contemporary full worn calf. Signature of Archibald C. Shaw on front flyleaf. From the library of Conner of Manch. Very rare. €375 ESTC T121449 6 copies, NLI only in Ireland. The traditional attribution to Thomas à Kempis is disputed.
3. A LOOKER ON [R. McCULLAM] Sketches of the Highlands of Cavan, and of Shirley Castle, in Farney, taken during the Irish Famine. By a Looker-On. Belfast: J. Reed, Bookseller, 97, Victoria Street, 1856. pp. 316. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Light foxing to prelims. Repair to spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €385 No copy located on COPAC.
4. AN ENGLISHMAN [William Whittaker Barry] A Walking Tour Round Ireland in 1865. By an Englishman. With folding map. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1867. pp. xix, [1], 406, [5]. Green cloth, sprig of shamrock in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Rare. €375 COPAC locates 6 copies only. William Whittaker Barry went on a walking tour of Ireland in the autumn of 1865. He spent over ten weeks traversing twenty out of the thirty two counties, walking upwards of 1,000 miles. He described himself as a self-professed "intelligent and well-informed Englishman".
5. [ANGLO-NORMAN] Anglo-Norman Poem on the Conquest of Ireland by Henry the Second from a Manuscript preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth Palace. Edited by Francisque Michel, with an introductory essay on the history of the Anglo-Norman conquest of Ireland by Thomas Wright. With one-page colour facsimile of the original manuscript. London: William Pickering, 1837. 12mo. pp. viii, lx, 185. Contemporary full calf, spine professionally rebacked, title in gilt on black morocco letterpiece. Minor wear to corners. A very good copy. Very rare. €375
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De Búrca Ra re Books NSTC locates only 5 copies. Not in Bradshaw or Gilbert. This poem is taken from a manuscript in the Library of Lambeth Palace. It was written on vellum in a fourteenth-century hand, in double columns, and originally belonged to Sir George Carew, whose incorrect translation was printed by Harris in his Hibernica. Although faulty in style and corrupt in its language the poem is, however, one of the most important primary sources for the Norman Conquest of Ireland during the reign of Henry II. The author is unknown, but he got his information from the mouth of Morice Regan, interpreter to King Dermod, as he states in the opening lines of this poem: "Morice Regan iert celui, Buche ... buche parla ... lui ... Ici Morice iert Latiner Al rei Dermod, ke mult l'out cher". He did not however confine himself to Regan's oral account but made use of the reminiscences of 'old men', and others who took part in the proceedings at that time. We also know that our poet did not live far from the scene of the events which he related.
6. [ANON] The Robber Chieftain: an Historical Tale of Dublin Castle. Dublin: James Duffy, & London: 1863. pp. [4], 342. Yellow back, illustrated in colour. Some wear to corners. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €265 COPAC locates the BL and TCD copies only. Loeber 215. Brown ascribes this work to William Carleton, but not so by Hayley. The story is set in Dublin Castle in the seventeenth century. The robber chieftain is Redmond O'Hanlon, the Tory or Rapparee. The cruelties of Ludlow and the Cromwellians are well described.
7. [ARAN ISLANDS] Ordnance Survey Map of the Aran Islands. Folded and coloured. Sheet 113. Scale 1 inch to a mile. 530 x 455mm. Published at the Ordnance Office April, 1905. Lightly damp stained, otherwise a good copy. Scarce. €20 The Islands as J.M. Synge would have seen them.
8. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS] Irish Architectural Drawings. An Exhibition to Commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Irish Architectural Records Association. Foreword by the Earl of Ross and introduction by the Knight of Glin. Illustrated. Dublin: The Municipal Gallery of Art. 1965. Quarto. pp. 44. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy. €30 9. ARNOLD, Matthew. On the Study of Celtic Literature. London: Smith Elder, 1867. First edition. pp. xviii, 181, 2 (publisher's list). Brown cloth over bevelled boards, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Fraying to spine ends, otherwise a very good copy. €65 First published as a series of four articles in the Cornhill Magazine.
10. [ATHLONE] Athlone. The capital of the Midlands. The Official Guide. With illustrations, map and numerous adverts. Cheltenham: Burrow, n.d. (c.1932). pp. 20. Illustrated stapled wrappers. Ex. library with stamps. A very good copy. €20 PRESIDENT OBAMA'S ANCESTOR'S COPY 11. AUCKLAND, William Eden, Baron. Principles of Penal Law. Dublin: Printed for John Milliken, Bookseller, College-Green, 1772. pp. xxvii, [1], 331, [1]. With a half-title. Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on maroon morocco label on spine. From the library of Michael Kearney, Fellow T.C.D., on front pastedown. Joints a little weak but very firm, wear to heel of spine. A fine fresh copy. €475 ESTC T136250. William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland (1745-1814) statesman and diplomat, was a member of the influential Eden family, and a younger son of Sir Robert Eden, 3rd Baronet, of Windlestone Hall, County Durham. He was educated at Durham School, Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1768. In 1771 Auckland published Principles of Penal Law, and soon became a recognised 2
De Búrca Ra re Books authority on commercial and economic questions. In 1778 he carried an Act for the improvement of the treatment of prisoners, and accompanied the Earl of Carlisle as a commissioner to North America on an unsuccessful mission to bring an end to the American War of Independence. In 1780 Auckland became Chief Secretary for Ireland and was admitted to the Irish Privy Council. He represented Dungannon in the Irish House of Commons and was Joint Vice-Treasurer of Ireland between 1783 and 1784. While in Ireland he established the National Bank. In 1789 Eden was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Auckland. The sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands, south of New Zealand discovered in 1806, were named after him. Barack Obama is directly descended from the Kearneys of Shinrone and Moneygall, County Offaly. The height of this family's prosperity was in the latter half of the eighteenth century, when the nephews from Offaly stepped into their Dublin uncle's business of wig-making (also known as peruke or periwig-making). Wigs were not just a luxury item, they were worn by professionals, the gentry and the aristocracy, but also by many of the staff in big houses. Joseph Kearney, President Obama's seven times great-grandfather, was born ca. 1698 and had four known sons: Thomas, Joseph (Obama's direct line), John and Patrick. Of these sons, Thomas followed in the profitable line of business established by the senior branch of the family, and he became a peruke-maker. Joseph became a comber in the textile business. Michael Kearney, (Obama's 6th great-granduncle) becomes involved in the Dublin city politics of the day and John Kearney, who would be a distant cousin of Obama's, went on to become the Provost of Trinity College Dublin and later Bishop of Ossory.
12. [BALLYCROY ESTATE] Abstract of Title of Mrs. Sybella Clive to the Lands of Owenduff and Cuillalongham, part of the Ballycroy Estates in the County of Mayo, 1884. Includes copy Indenture (4th July 1866) between George Rooper of Lincolns Inn Fields ... Katherine Mary Anne Birch of Metham Hall ... George Clive of Great Cumberland Place. Reciting that by a Deed Poll dated 11th day of August 1852, the Encumbered Estates in Ireland did grant unto S. Clive the towns and lands of Drimgollah, Greenane, Essaur, Lodguftbeg ... Owenduffe, Scardaun, Claggan (Cafferkey & O'Donnell), the islands of Ownagh, Glassilane ... Kildun, Litteree (Conway & Hickey), Tallaght and Illanroe in the District of Ballycroy ... contg. 32,565 acres, 2 rods and 28 perches ... To hold the same unto the G. Clive his heirs and assigns for ever subject to the perpetual yearly rent of £96 over and above all taxes quit rent ... executed by our Indenture dated the 1st day of May 1852 made between the Most Noble George John Marquis of Sligo on the one part and Sir Richard Annesley O'Donnell on the other. Large quarto consisting of 20 pages written in a neat, legible and forward slanting hand. Bound together with a silk tie. In very good condition. €185 13. BANIM, John. The Boyne Water, A Tale, by The O'Hara family. Authors of Tales, comprising Crohoore of the Bill-Hook, The Fetches, and John Doe. London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1826. First edition. pp. (1) xix, 375 (2) [2], 421 (3) [2], 436. Printer's name on verso of titlepage: J. M'Creery, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane. Contemporary half maroon morocco on marbled boards. New endpapers. Mild foxing. A good set. Exceedingly rare. €675 COPAC locates 3 sets only. Wolff 225. Loeber B20. John Banim (1798-1842), novelist, playwright, poet and artist was the son of Michael Banim, a Catholic shopkeeper and younger brother of Michael Banim. When he was ten, John visited the home of the poet Thomas Moore, bringing along some of his own poetry and manuscript. Moore gave him great encouragement to continue writing and gave him a season ticket to his private theatre in Kilkenny, where Moore himself was performing at the time. Banim was educated at Kilkenny College and later studied drawing at the Academy of the Royal Dublin Society and after graduating returned to Kilkenny in 1816 where he taught drawing at a girls' boarding school. Two years later he went to Dublin where he contributed to various publications. He emigrated to London shortly afterwards, where he tried to make a living by writing. Returning home again he married Ellen Ruth ( Rothe) of Inistioge in 1822, and returned again to London where he set up home in Brompton and joined the staff of the Literary Register. In conjunction with his elder brother, Michael, he planned a series of tales illustrative of Irish life, which was to be for Ireland what the Waverley Novels were for Scotland; and the influence of his model is distinctly traceable in his writings. In this great novel the Williamite War is brought to life, all the leading historical personages mingle in 3
De Búrca Ra re Books the action, Sarsfield, Walker, Galloping O'Hogan and Carolan, the famous Irish Harper. The beautiful wild scenery of the Antrim coast along with Sarsfield's Ride is vividly described. Great effort is given to thread a neutral course, but understandably the standpoint is Catholic and Jacobite. The book ends with the Treaty of Limerick. The O'Hara family is the joint pseudonym of John and Michael Banim; The Boyne Water is generally attributed to John Banim only.
14. BARRETT, J.W. Arklow. The Official Guide. With maps, illustrations and numerous adverts. Cheltenham: Burrow, n.d. (c.1927). pp. 34. Ex. library with stamps. Illustrated stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €20 THE RED PATH TO GLORY 15. BARRY, Tom. BEASLAI, P., BREEN, Dan & Others. With the I.R.A. in the Fight for Freedom, 1919 to the Truce. With location maps. Tralee: The Kerryman, n.d. pp. 238. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €95 The chapters include: Monaghan Men's Baptism of Fire at the Ballytrain R.I.C. Post; The Ambush at Rineen; The R.I.C. at Ruan; A Tipperary Column Laying for R.I.C. at Thomastown; Lord French was not Destined to Die by an Irish Bullet; Auxiliaries Wiped out at Kilmichael; The Sacking of Cork City; Dromkeen Ambush; Scramogue Ambush; Action by the West Connemara Column; Tourmakeady Ambush, etc.
INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 16. BAYNE, S.G. On An Irish Jaunting-Car Through Donegal and Connemara. Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. Quarto. pp. 138. Illustrated cloth. Inscribed by the author. Top edge gilt, otherwise a very good copy. €165 Memoir of the author's trip from New York to Queenstown, travelling to Londonderry, Gweedore, Ballinrobe, the Aran Islands, Limerick, etc. Complemented with photographs of the people and places he visited.
17. BEAMISH, C.T.M. Beamish. A Genealogical Study of A Family in County Cork and Elsewhere. With maps and numerous pedigrees. Frontispiece coat of arms. London: 1950. Royal octavo. pp. vi, 275. Red cloth, title in silver on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. €375 COPAC locates 4 copies only. The surname Beamish according to Edward MacLysaght is of French origin, being derived from the place-name Beaumais (sur Dive). The family have been in Ireland since the Elizabethan times, when the first of the name came from England to County Kerry, and has since being closely identified with that County and also with County Cork. With Genealogical Tables of the various branches of the Beamish family: Raheroon & Palace Anne, Kilmaloda, Cashelmore, Mount Beamish, Willsgrove & Beaumont, Acres, Ballyva, Lahana, Lakemount, and Skehanore.
18. BECKETT, J.C. The Anglo-Irish Tradition. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1976. pp. 159. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. Fine in dust jacket. €28 In this book the author uses the term 'Anglo-Irish' for convenience, while rejecting the racialist attitude it implies. He maintains that the Anglo-Irish are as truly Irish as their Gaelic neighbours, and that their tradition is an essential part of the life of Ireland. He traces their history down to the Treaty of 1921, and discusses briefly the significance for Ireland of their rapid decline, both in numbers and in influence, since that date.
19. BECKETT, J.C. Protestant Dissent in Ireland 1687-1780. London: Faber and Faber, 1948. pp. 161. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper. A very good copy. €45 This work is an attempt to explain why the division among Protestants persisted in face of a hostile majority of Catholics, and to examine the extent to which the dissenters actually suffered under the Penal Laws enacted against them.
20. BECKETT, Samuel. CREVEL, René. The Collected poems of Rene Crevel. The Negress in the Brothel. With an essay translated by Samuel Beckett. Paris?, 1989. Royal octavo. pp. [16]. Title printed in red and olive green. Text in red. Pictorial stiff red wrappers. One of the first 24 copies on Arches mould-made paper, containing an numbered and signed etching by the publisher, Michael Caine. A superb copy. Very rare. €385 4
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CONNER OF MANCH COPY 21. BEKKER, Immanuel. Aristotelis Ethica Nicomachea / ex Recensione Immanuelis Bekkeri. Iterum edita. Berolini: Typis et Impensis Ge. Reimeri, 1845. pp. [2], 228, [2]. Contemporary full calf. Covers framed by double gilt fillets. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands, title in gilt on black morocco letterpiece on the second. All edges sprinkled. From the library of Daniel Conner of Manch, with his armorial bookplate. Wear to heel of spine. A very good copy. â‚Ź375 August Immanuel Bekker (1785-1871) German philologist and critic. He was born in Berlin. Bekker completed his classical education at the University of Halle under Friedrich August Wolf, who considered him as his most promising pupil. In 1810 he was appointed professor of philosophy in the University of Berlin. For several years, between 1810 and 1821, he travelled in France, Italy, England and parts of Germany, examining classical manuscripts and gathering materials for his great editorial labours. 5
De Búrca Ra re Books 22. BENCE-JONES, Mark. Twilight of the Ascendancy. With numerous illustrations. London: Constable, 1987. First edition. Royal octavo. pp. xvii, 327. Blue paper boards, title in silver on spine. A very good copy in dust jacket. €85 23. BENNETT, T. W. Westropp & O'HANLON, M. F. Pro Domo Sua - Being the Speech of the Chairman of the Seanad, Senator T. W. Westropp Bennett, in Defense of his House of the Oireachtas Against Mr. De Valera and his Government, Delivered in the Seanad on the 30th May, 1934 - Together with an Extract from the Speech of the Vice-Chairman, Senator M. F. O'Hanlon, Delivered on the Same Occasion. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1934. Printed wrappers. pp. 58. A very good copy. €35 In this speech defending the Senate against its proposed abolition by Eamon De Valera, the Cathaoirleach rejects De Valera's accusation that the Senate had become partisan against his Government, and accuses him of attempting to establish a dictatorship.
"MANY OF THE CABINS WERE HOLES IN THE BOG" 24. BENNETT, William. Narrative of a Recent Journey of Six Weeks in Ireland, in connection with the Subject of Supplying Small Seed to some of the Remoter Districts: with Current Observations on the Depressed Circumstances of the People and the Means Presented for the Permanent Improvement of their Social Condition. London: Charles Gilpin. Dublin: J. Curry, 1847. pp. xvi, 178, [1]. Publisher's green blind-stamped cloth, titled in gilt. Spine evenly faded. Crease to lower cover. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €695 COPAC locates 6 copies only. Manuscript memoranda on rear endpaper: "Alfred Bishop, Deputy-Assistant Commissary-General, was carried off by Fever, caught in the performance of his duty at Belmullet, County Mayo, on the 17th of last month, and a letter just received conveys the same mournful intelligence respecting Charles P. Thomas, one of the Clergymen alluded to in page 129, and writer of the letter Appendix F. Few perhaps in Ireland - the communication continues - would leave so painful an impression by their loss, which neither tongue nor pen can describe". The author was a Quaker who visited Ireland during the great Irish Famine. In a series of letters to his sister "one of the working members of the Ladies' Irish Clothing Committee of London" he describes the wretched scenes and condition of the peasantry during a four week period in the Spring of 'Black '47'. During this time he visited Ballina, Belmullet, Rossport, Sligo, Dungloe, Arranmore, Gweedore, Dunfanaghy, Cahirciveen, Kenmare, Glengarriff, Cork, Clonmel and Waterford. In the Mullet peninsula he describes the abodes: "Many of the cabins were holes in the bog covered with a layer of turves, and not distinguishable as human habitations from the surrounding moor, until close down upon them ... Doorways, not doors, were usually provided at both sides of the bettermost - back and front - to take advantage of the way of the wind. Windows and chimneys, I think, had no existence ... furniture, properly so called, I believe may be stated at nil". The contents: London Relief Committee of the Society of Friends; Purchase of seeds; Departure to the West; Degrading employment of the women; Ballina - Belmullet; Simple peasantry of the west; Deaths from Starvation; Soup kitchen; Newest town in Ireland; Belmullet, General locality of the cabins; Famine fever; Observation of the Commissariat; Remarks on early marriages; Belmullet - Rossport, Hardships from the want of stores; Visit to the cottier tenantry; Reduced ability and exertions of the owner; Depression of the peasantry; Rossport - Sligo, Lieutenant's Carey's observations, The single suit and the solitary hat, Safety of green crops, Sad expressions; Sligo - Dungloe, Wise man's tower, Neglected capabilities of Ballyshannon, Progress of destitution, Village of Maghery; Arranmore, General aspects of Annamore, Wretched state of the people, and difficulties in the way of their effective relief, Ready wit, Coast track to Bunbeg; Gweedore - Dunfanaghy, Contrast between former accommodation and the Gweedore Hotel, Share in the present calamity, Promotion of flax sowing, Promotion of female industry; Dunfanaghy - Dublin, Improvement in the aspect of the country, Mortality in Armagh and neighbourhood, Flax Society of Belfast, Extracts on female industrial employment; Dublin - Cahirciveen, Subscriptions from the Slave States, Entrance into County Tipperary, Caves at Mitchelstown, Coast scenery to Cahirciveen; Cahirciveen - Kenmare, Birth-place of Daniel O'Connell, Mildness of Climate, Spanish traces, Distribution of the last of our seeds; Kenmare - Waterford, Wretched scenes in Kenmare, Depreciation of live stock, Results of starvation; Conclusion, Picture of Ireland, Emigration as a remedy, Loans and their consequences, Causes of the depression of Ireland, Principles of a free Government applied to the tenure of land. 6
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CONNER OF MANCH COPY 25. [BIBLE] The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments ... The Psalms of David in Metre ... Translations and Paraphrases in Verse, of several passages of Sacred Scripture. Edinburgh: Printed by Sir D. Hunter Blair & M.S. Tyndall Bruce, 1841. pp. [iv], 762, 33, 19. Contemporary full black morocco decorated in gilt on covers and spine. Signature of Conner of Manch on front flyleaf. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €285 COPAC locates the NLS copy only.
26. BLACK, Hester M. William Butler Yeats a Catalogue of an exhibition from the P.S. O'Hegarty collection in the University of Kansas Library. Lawrence: 1966. Second edition. pp. 42. Printed stapled wrappers. A fine copy. €30 27. BODKIN, Thomas. Adult Education in the Fine Arts. Being the eleventh George Cadbury Memorial Lecture, delivered at the George Cadbury Hall, at Selly Oak College, December 3rd, 1937. Selly Oak: Central Council, 1937. pp. 16. Printed stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €25 28. BONAR LAW, Andrew and Charlotte. The Irish Prints of James Malton. Illustrated. Dublin: The Neptune Gallery, 1999. Folio. pp. iv, 115, [26]. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket.
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Reproduced in full colour are the twenty-five magnificent views of Dublin by James Malton and also William Faden's map of Dublin 1797.
ISABELLA KIRKLAND'S COPY 29. [BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER] The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments / according to the Use of the Church of Ireland, together with the Psalter ..., and the Form and manner of making, ordaining and consecrating bishops, priests and deacons. Dublin: Printed by and for S. Hyde and E. Dobson, and for R. Gunne and R. Owen, Booksellers, 1730. No pagination provided. Later full black morocco. Covers framed by double gilt fillets and numerous blind fillets enclosing a central diced panel. Spine divided into five compartments by four thick gilt 7
De Búrca Ra re Books bands, title in gilt on brown morocco letterpiece in the second. In gilt on black morocco label on front pastedown 'The Gift of / Mrs. Deborah Lindsay. / To / Mrs. Isabella Kirkland. / April the 6. 1788'. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €1,250 COPAC locates 3 copies. TCD only in Ireland.
See items 29 & 30 EXCEEDINGLY RARE DUBLIN PRINTING 30. [BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER] The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland: together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David. Dublin: Printed by George Grierson and John Rowe Power, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1817. 12mo. pp. 354, [108]. Contemporary full worn calf. Title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Premium prize awarded to Susanna Helena Meade. Badge of Society for Promoting Christian Religion in gilt on both covers. Society's label on front pastedown. All edges gilt. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €575 COPAC locates the TCD copy only. Not in NLI.
31. BORGES, Jorge Luis. Irish Strategies. Two Stories by Borges adapted into English by Anthony Kerrigan and into Irish by Diarmaid O Suilleabhain; Two Poems in Spanish on Joyce by Borges with English Translations by Anthony Kerrigan; Statements by Borges and Robert Graves; An Essay in Irish and in English by Diarmaid O Suilleabhain; A Mnemonic Note, Two Essays and a Poem on Borges by Anthony Kerrigan; Eight Drawings by Bernard Childs; Edited by Liam Miller. Dolmen Editions XXI. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1975. First edition. pp. 89. Quarter brown morocco on green gilt decorated paper boards. Edition limited to 350 copies signed by Anthony Kerrigan, Diarmaid O'Suilleabhain and Bernard Childs. Top edge red. Fine in slipcase. Very scarce. €365 Miller 233. 8
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A handsome book. Translations of the stories printed with the Irish and English text facing each other; the poems in the original Spanish have translations printed opposite.
32. BORLASE, Edmund. The Reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England with the Governours since the Conquest by King Henry II anno MDCLXXII. With some Passages on their Government. A Brief Account of the Rebellion Anno Dom. MDCXLI. Also, The Original Charters of the Universitie of Dublin, and the Colledge of Physicians. London: Printed by Andrew Clarke, for Robert Clavel, at the Peacock in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1675. Medium octavo. pp. [xlix], 284. Recent full calf. Lacks folding plate. Signature of W. Walton on titlepage. All edges marbled. A very good copy. Scarce. €195 Wing B 3771. ESTC R2056. Sweeney 484. This work contains the original charters of both the University of Dublin and the College of Physicians. The main thrust of the work was to show how the English administration in Ireland had acted fairly both to the crown and to the Irish Catholics. Compiled on the whole from printed books, there are some interesting observations on diseases prevalent in Ireland at that time, and for the treatment of dysentery in extreme cases great use had 'been made of swine's dung drank in a convenient vehicle'! Dedication signed: Ed Borlase. The first leaf is blank. Pages 131 and 191 numbered 91 and 151 respectively.
33. BORLASE, Sir John & TICHBORNE, Sir Henry. A Proclamation Concerning A Cessation of Arms Agreed and concluded on at Siggins-town, in the County of Kildare, the Fifteen day of September, in the Nineteenth yeer of His Majesties Raign, by and between James Marquesse of Ormonde, Lieutenant Generall of His Majesties Army in the Kingdom of Ireland, for and in the name of our gracious Soveraign Lord Charles, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, &c. By vertue of His Majesties Commission bearing date at Dublin the last of August, in the said Nineteenth year of His Majesties Raign, of the one party. And Donogh Viscount Muskerry, Sir Lucas Dillon, Knight; Nicholas Plunket Esquire; Sir Robert Talbot Baronet; Sir Richard Barnwell Baronet; Torlogh O Neale, Geoffrey Brown, Ever MacGennis and John Walsh, Esquires; Authorised by His Majesties Roman Catholique Subjects ... To Treat and Conclude with the said Marquesse for a Cessation of Arms ... Whereunto is added, An Instrument touching the manner of payment of 30,800 pounds sterling by severall Payments. Printed first at Dublin by William Bladen, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty; And now Reprinted at London for Edw. Husbands, October 21, 1643. Quarto. pp. 10. Recent half blue morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. €1,250 ESTC R32216. Sweeney 485. Wing I 604. The Dublin edition credits the agreement on the King's side to the "Lords Justice and Council" and 9
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gives for date the 16th of September, this London reprint states that it had been agreed to by "James, Marquesse of Ormonde, Lieutenant Generall of His Majesties army in the Kingdom of Ireland" who it said was acting on foot of a King's commission dated the 31st of August. The Catholic team was headed by Donogh Viscount Muskerry by virtue of an authority given at Cashel on September 7th. Jigginstown, or Sigginstown House as it was also known, one of Kildare's most prominent ruins, was constructed under the guidance of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Stafford and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland during the reign of Charles I. It was planned as a royal residence for the king if and when he decided to visit Ireland. He estimated that the cost of the construction of Sigginstown amounted to ÂŁ6,000. Stafford was accused of treason by enemies in the House of Commons and was beheaded on Tower Hill, in 1641, and met his death with dignity and composure. 10
De Búrca Ra re Books 34. BOYLE, William. The Eloquent Dempsy. A Comedy in Three Acts. Dublin: Gill, n.d. pp. [iv], 85, [3]. Printed wrappers, staples rusted. A good copy. Scarce. €35 "I AM SO PLEASED TO KNOW MY OLD FRIENDS AND COMRADES ARE WITH ME" 35. BREEN, Dan. An important and interesting four page quarto autograph letter signed by Dan Breen on Dail Eireann headed paper, dated 15/7/61 to a constituent. He discusses local issues, Sean Tracy "the big outstanding man in Ireland in 1920". He also discusses rumours spread about him: "Some kind friend would like to see me out of public life or even dead and forgotten. That would suit them best ... when it would be more easy for me to stay on a hill side in Tipp ... The other report they speak about Breen don't live in Tipp ... why vote for him. Well I was in Tipp whenever I was needed ...". €485
Dan Breen (1894-1969) born near Soloheadbeg County Tipperary, worked as a plasterer and later as a linesman on the Great Southern Railway. Joined the Irish volunteers in 1914, and later Quartermaster Third Tipperary Brigade. He was co-planner of the Soloheadbeg ambush, staged on the first day of Dáil Eireann, 21 January 1919, this was the most significant incident since the Rising of Easter Week for it marked the beginning of the War of Independence. With the price of £10,000 on his head, he quickly established himself as a daring Republican. He represented the Tipperary constituency from the fourth Dáil in 1923 as a "Republican", along with Éamon de Valera and Frank Aiken. He became the first anti-Treaty TD to actually take his seat in 1927. He was defeated in the June 1927 general election and decided to travel to the United States where he opened a prohibition speakeasy. He returned to Ireland and regained his seat as a member of Fianna Fáil in the Dáil at the 1932 general election. He represented his Tipperary constituency without 11
De Búrca Ra re Books a break until his retirement at the 1965 election. He died in Dublin in 1969 and was buried in Donohill, near the place of his birth. His funeral was the largest seen in West Tipperary since his close friend and comrade-in-arms, Seán Treacy was buried at Kilfeacle in October 1920. An estimated attendance of 10,000 mourners assembled in the tiny village, giving ample testimony to the esteem in which he was held.
36. BREMER, Walther. Ireland's Place in Prehistoric and Early Historic Europe. A translation of an essay by the late Walther Bremer, Keeper of Irish Antiquities in the National Museum of Ireland, published under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy and the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Illustrated. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, & Co., 1928. pp. 38. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. €45 37. BRETT, Rev. T. Mayo of the Saxons. Brief History of an Old See. Dublin: Talbot, n.d. pp. 30. Very good in illustrated wrappers. Scarce. €35 38. [BROWNE, Thomas. LOVER, Samuel. & OTHERS] The Parson's Horn-Book. By the Comet Literary and Patriotic Club. Illustrated with humorous plates. Dublin: Printed and Sold by Browne & Sheehan, at The Comet Office, No. 10, D'Olier-Street, 1831. Second edition. pp. [iv], 203. Recent half morocco. A fine copy. €175
Collage of excellent cartoons, balladry and squibs lampooning the tithe system and the Church of Ireland clergy in general produced by the editorial team that was responsible for the radical and highly successful newspaper The Comet, which was published in Dublin from 1831 to 1833. Samuel Lover was credited with the comic illustrations (later he denied this) and Thomas Browne, a Wesleyan farmer and miller from the Queen's County whose 'nom de plume' was 'Jonathan Buckthorn' was editor and part author along with some young barristers, littérateurs, and members of Parliament. Prospectus, notices and critiques bound in at front.
CARLOW ELECTION 1840 "HURRAH FOR COLONEL BRUEN" 39. [BRUEN, Henry] Autograph Letter Signed with humorous cartoons by R. Vigors to Thomas Vigors, Esq. in Winchester about the Carlow Election in December, 1840; Colonel Henry Bruen returned with a majority of 167. Dated at Burgage, Sunday [7th December, 1840]. In the first page of the letter Vigors discusses a heavy cold that he has caught and of the marriage of Mrs. Boucille? to a Mr. Nixon in Dublin "on whose occasion white gloves will be in request among the brides men & maids". Depicted is a humorous scene of the wedding ceremony with hilarious comments by the groom and some of the guests. The letter then goes on to discuss the election of Col. Bruen. This is followed by three verses of eight lines each on the election: 12
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"With praise to lift our Bruen high on Glorys hill Who long has fought this county's battle well ... And in the Hustings shouted himself hoarse Till at his feet, in Carlow - Popery fell! ... And tho' eer now the County has been bought (for ÂŁ2,000) By tenants sent at Dan O'Connell's will The last, old Ponsonby has got his fill ... The Priests they stormed - Lord Milton shook his fist ... If any Papist dare for Bruen vote ... And Walter Blakeney too stood in the list ... " Also depicted here is a humorous political cartoon in watercolour of Bruen being hoisted on a chair through the streets of Carlow with banners and amusing comments from the jubilant crowd. The Colonel throwing half crowns to the delighted onlookers: "a rale silver half crown bedad! ... 13
De Búrca Ra re Books Sweet Colonel youre giving me my supper ... hurrah for Bruen ... Are you thirsty Colonel" and many other squibs besides. The writer has requested his letter when read to be sent to Urban, 22 Molesworth Street, Lisle House. Address panel marked paid December 7th., with original Penny Black stamp (they were first issued on 1st May, 1840). Stamp of Leighlin Bridge, dated December 8, 1840. Some tears and folding marks, otherwise in very good condition. A unique and important historical letter. €1,250 Colonel Henry Bruen (1789-1852) was Member of Parliament for County Carlow for almost four decades, between 1812 and 1852. Following the death of the Liberal MP Nicholas Aylward Vigors, a by-election was called in Carlow on 5 December, 1840. Colonel Bruen was returned by a majority of 167 over his opponent, Mr. Ponsonby. He was then re-elected at the next three general elections. Bruen was the second son of Henry Bruen (1741-1795), and Dorothea Henrietta Knox. His father originally came from Boyle, County Roscommon, but had moved in 1775 to Oak Park estate, near Carlow town. The estate was inherited by Henry, and remained in the family until 1957. In 1822 he married Anne Wandesforde Kavanagh, daughter of Thomas Kavanagh, The MacMorrough Kavanagh and Lady Elizabeth Butler. (Anne's younger half-brother was Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh, the severely disabled writer, politician and sportsman. They had three daughters and one son, Henry who was also MP for the county. This letter illustrates the bitter in-fighting in Carlow between those Catholics who wished to vote for the local resident Tory landlord and the priests who wished to support O'Connell. For the by-election in Carlow, O'Connell told a London merchant, Alexander Raphael, formerly a Jew but now a Catholic, that he could have the seat for £2,000, hence the reference in the poem.
RARE DUBLIN PRINTING 40. [BURGH, James] The Art of Speaking : Containing, I. An Essay; in which are given Rules for expressing properly the principal Passions and Humours, which occur in Reading, or Public Speaking; and II. Lessons, Taken from the Antients and Moderns ... To which are added, A Table of the Lessons, and an index, of the various passions and humours in the essay and lessons. The fifth edition. Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Price, Whitestone, Wilkinson, ... Beatty, Burton, and B. Watson, 1779. 12mo. pp. [iv], 308, [20]. With a half-title and an index. Modern full morocco, title in gilt on green morocco label on spine. Name clipped from top of titlepage. Mild water staining to first section inner margin. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €575 COPAC locates the BL and Stanford copies only. ESTC N47429. Not in NLI.
41. [BURKE'S] Burke's Irish Family Records. With a preface by the editor, Hugh MontgomeryMassingberd. London: Burke's Peerage, Distributed in North America by Arco Publishing, New York, 1976. pp. xxxii, 1237. Red buckram gilt. A very good copy. Scarce. €175 Though by necessity the title has been changed, this volume is a worthy successor to the past four editions of Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland, which first appeared in 1899. This was followed in 1904, but the most scholarly and greatly extended edition was brought out in 1912 under the editorship of A.C. Fox-Davies. He greatly benefited by the expert advice of G.D. Burtchaell, then Deputy Ulster, who contributed much Irish material to the Complete Peerage, and examined all the lineage to be published in the Landed Gentry which made it a work of considerably more value than its counterpart of Great Britain. After a 46 year wait, a new edition was issued in 1958, though by then the great majority of the families previously treated had either lost their land or had left Ireland. Consequently many of the families included no longer were landowners. The present editor was restricted by economic reasons to treat about 500 families (514 are included), but it is pleasant to note that this edition has 1,237 pages compared to 778 in 1958. The book is handsomely produced with considerable material not previously published. Included in the new pedigree are the artistic family of Hone, and those of Oscar Wilde and the late Erskine Childers. It is well known that the longest documented pedigrees in Europe are those of Irish dynasties. When they ceased to reign, many continued to have a chiefly status. Some still appear, such as The McGillycuddy of the Reeks, O'Conor Don, and The Mac Dermot, Prince of Coolavin, who incidentally has the only native princely style outside the Royal House in the British Isles.
42. BURNET, Gilbert. The Life of William Bedell, D.D. Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland. London: Printed for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown, 1692. pp. [36], 487, [1]. Modern full calf in seventeenth century style, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece on spine. Paper repair to titlepage. A very good copy. Very scarce. €175 14
De Búrca Ra re Books Wing B 5830 ESTC R27239. Sweeney 752. A well-timed biography coinciding with the publication of the 1st edition of Bedell's Irish Bible. William Bedel was a man revered not only by the English but by the native Irish as well. When he was consecrated Bishop of Kilmore in 1629 he witnessed the appalling hardship and poverty among the native Irish. With his kindness and generosity towards them in the spirit of a true Christian, he became their trusted friend. He even learned their language and was the first translator of the Old Testament into Irish. O'Reilly of Breifne styled him 'Ultimus Anglorum', the best of the English. This was the first biography of Bedel.
RARE DUBLIN PRINTING 43. BURROWES, Robert. Sententiæ Quædam Selectæ Ethicæ et Historicæ : Cum notis, et indice verborum ommium quæ occurrunt. In usum scholarum edidit Robertus Burrowes, D.D. Magister Scholæ Enniskillensis. Dublinii: Impensis Georgii Grierson, 1800. 12mo. pp. [2], iii, [2], 4-115, [1]. Contemporary full worn calf. Upper joint split. Wear to covers with partial loss. Some pages worn and dog-eared. Extremely rare. €365 ESTC N67262 locating the TCD copy only. Not in NLI. Rev. Robt Burrowes (Burrows) Doctor of Divinity, was a powerful landowner at Stradone House, County Cavan, and he married into the equally important Story family of Bingfield, Crossdoney, County Cavan...when he married Sophia daughter of Rev. Joseph Story and Frances Arabella Sneyd.
44. BUTLER, H.J. & H.E. Ed. by. The Black Book of Edgeworthstown and Other Edgeworth Memories 1585-1817. Edited by Harriet Jessie Butler and Harold Edgeworth Butler. With illustrations and a large folding genealogical chart. London: Faber & Gwyer, 1927. pp. xii, 260. Black cloth. A very good copy. €65 Interesting memoirs of a distinguished family covering the period 1585 to 1817, whose luminaries include: the novelist Maria; her father Richard Lovell and the Abbé who attended Louis XVI of France upon the scaffold.
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De Búrca Ra re Books TICKET OF CLONMEL BOOKBINDER 45. [BUTT, Isaac] The Georgics of Virgil; translated into English Prose, with an appendix of Critical and Explanatory Notes by Isaac Butt, Scholar of Trinity College, Dublin. Dublin: William Curry Jun., 1834. pp. [iv], 175. Original grey boards. Spine expertly rebacked in green calf. Ticket of O'Neill, Printer, Bookbinder, & Bookseller, Clonmel, on front pastedown. Very good. Exceedingly rare. €875 COPAC locates only 2 copies. Isaac Butt (1813-1879), was a barrister and politician. Born in Glenfin, County Donegal, educated at Royal School, Raphoe, and T.C.D. A brilliant academic, he was one of the founding members of the Dublin University Magazine; opposed O'Connell and the Repeal movement. He was defence counsel to the Young Irelanders, William Smith O'Brien and Thomas F. Meagher. In 1869 Butt accepted the position of president of the Amnesty Association. He was chosen to represent the city of Limerick in 1871, became a Home Ruler and practically founded that party in 1870. He was probably the inventor of the phrase 'Home Rule', and he soon became one of the great figures in Irish popular politics. After seven years as M.P. for Limerick he was replaced as leader of the nationalist Parliamentary Party by Charles Stewart Parnell. He died at Roebuck Cottage, near Dundrum, County Dublin, 5 May 1879, and was buried at Stranorlar.
46. BYRNE, Art & McMAHON, Sean. Faces of the West 1875-1925. A Record of Life in the West of Ireland. Illustrated. Belfast: Appletree, 1981. pp. 114. Square octavo. Illustrated wrappers. €25 47. CABALL, John. The Rose of Tralee. The Story of a Tradition. Tralee: The Kerryman, 1946. pp. 32. Pictorial wrappers. Previous owner's signature and bookplate on titlepage. A fine copy. Rare. €20 48. [CAMPBELL, Thomas] A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland in a series of letters to John Wilkinson, M.D. With six engraved plates (five folding). London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1777. Sole edition. pp. xvi, 476 (including errata). Recent full calf. A very good copy. Very scarce. €375 Kress B.107. Thomas Campbell (1733-1795) was born in Glack, County Tyrone, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. A friend of Dr. Johnson, his Survey was regarded by Boswell as "a very entertaining book, which has, however, one fault - that it assumes the fictitious character of an Englishman". In the Survey Johnson's epitaph on Goldsmith appeared for the first time in print.
49. CAPEL, Arthur. Letters written by his Excellency Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in the year 1675. To which is prefixed an Historical Account of his Life and deplorable Death in the Tower of London. Dublin: Printed for T. Walker, at Cicero's Head, Dame-street, 1773. Second edition. pp. xxxix, [1], 367, [1]. Modern half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Repair to top of titlepage. Ex lib with stamps. A very good copy. €275 ESTC T110680. Arthur Capel (1631-1683), Earl of Essex, was in April 1671, appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on the removal of the Duke of Ormonde, and continued until his recall in 1677. Burnet said of him: "He exceeded all that had gone before him, and is still considered as a pattern to all that came after him. He studied to understand exactly well the constitution and interest of the nation. He read over all their council books, and made large abstracts out of them to guide him ... He made several volumes of tables of state, and persons that were in every county and town, and got true characters of all that were capable to serve the public; and he preferred men always upon merit without any application from themselves, and watched over all about him, that there should be no bribes among his servants". The full, detailed and continuous Letters, both private and official, bears testimony to the truth of every word in this quotation, this is further compounded by the fact that Ormonde bore honourable testimony to the integrity, and ability of his government. Essex seems to have protected the papists, as far as English opinion would allow, though he knew from sources in London that he would be torn to pieces if he permitted secular priests to say mass openly. Throughout his administration, he had to struggle continuously against the pretensions of Orrery and misgovernment of Ranelagh. His last few months in office were embittered by a scandalous insult to his wife from a Captain Brabazon, who declared her guilty of an intrigue with him. This was brought about by the connivance of Ranelagh, Danby and the Duchess of Portsmouth. Essex before leaving Ireland proved the charge was a malicious falsehood. He was one of a few Englishmen who urged Charles II to pardon St. Oliver Plunket, Archbishop of 16
De Búrca Ra re Books Armagh, illegally condemned to death on account of the pretended Irish plot, declaring from his own knowledge that the charge could not be true. The king rebuked him saying: "Then, my lord, be his blood on your conscience. You might have saved him, if you would. I cannot pardon him because I dare not". Arrested on a charge of treason, Essex was confined to the Tower (to the very rooms from which his father had been taken to execution), and there cut his throat.
50. CARNEY, James. Ed. by. A Genealogical History of the O'Reillys. Written in the eighteenth century by Eoghan O'Raghallaigh and incorporating the earlier work of Dr. Fitzsimons, Vicar-General of the Diocese of Kilmore. Dublin: DIAS for Breifne Historical Society, 1959. pp. 161. Green buckram, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. Very scarce. €125 The O'Reilly's constitute one of the most numerous names in Ireland, being among the first dozen in the list. Most of them come from Cavan and adjoining counties, the area to which they belong by origin, for they for centuries the most powerful sept in Breffny, their head being chief of BreffnyO'Reilly and for a long time during the middle ages his influence extended well into Meath and Westmeath. Five of the clan held the Primacy as Archbishops of Armagh, Edward O'Reilly (d.1829) compiled a pioneer Irish-English dictionary in April 1817.
51. CARPENTER, Nathanael. Achitophel; or, The Picture of a Wicked Politician. Divided into Three Parts. London: Printed for M[ichael] S[parke], 1629. Quarto. pp. [v], 64. Recent quarter brown morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Very scarce. €475 ESTC S107539 locating the Cashel Cathedral Library copy only. Sweeney 874. Of the 1st edition printed in Dublin in 1627 only a titlepage survives in the British Library. Carpenter, sometime-fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, secured the patronage of Archbishop Ussher to whom this work is dedicated and became Schoolmaster of the King's wards in Dublin. The full citation entry Early English Books Online describes this as "a parable on Irish politics of uncertain reference".
52. [CAVAN BULL SALE] A Broadside. Season 1907. Short Horn Bull, Champion. The property of Jas. McNally, Murmod, Virginia, County Cavan. €75 The broadside tells us that Champion is now sixteen months old, of a beautiful roan colour, got by Mr. Broome's Prize Bull, Bailieboro and out of a Prize Cow. He will be let to a limited number of cows this season at 2/6 each, if not paid before 1st Jan. 1908, 3/- will be charged.
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De Búrca Ra re Books 53. CHARLES I. / GAUDEN, John, Bishop. Eikon Basilike. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty in his Solitudes and Sufferings. With engraved frontispiece showing the King at prayer. London: 1648 [49]. 16mo. pp. [viii], 269, [1]. Contemporary full worn calf. Spine expertly rebacked. A very good copy. €475
Wing E 291. ESTC R176008 locates 8 copies only. Sweeney 985 quoting an extremely rare Cork edition. Forty years after the King's death, authorship of this work was still creating controversy. Arthur Annesley, the Earl of Anglesey was one Irish contributor to this debate. The most acceptable attribution is to credit Charles I with the drafting and Bishop John Gauden with the editing for the press. The poem "an epitaph upon King Charles" is signed I.H. Chapter 12 deals with the subject of "the rebellion, and troubles in Ireland".
RARE THREE DECKER BY CORK AUTHOR 54. CHETWODE, Anna Maria. Blue-Stocking Hall. Three volumes. London: Henry Colburn, 1827. Large 12mo. pp. (1) iv, 320, (2) [1], 328, (3) [3], 258, + errata, 4 (advertisement). With half-title in volume three, not called for in volume one. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on olive green morocco labels in the second compartments, volume number in gilt direct in the fourth. Armorial bookplate of John Paley on front pastedowns. Some occasional light foxing. A very good copy. €865 COPAC locates 3 sets only. NLI holds the Joly set. Wolff 6202. Garside 1827: 60. Block p. 206. Loeber C 202. Not in Sadleir. Miss Anna Maria Chetwode [Chetwood] fl. 1827. Novelist daughter of Rev. John Chetwode, a Church of Ireland clergyman of Glanmire, near Cork and Elizabeth Hamilton. She was granddaughter of Knightley Chetwode, friend of Jonathan Swift. Her father, a literary-minded gentleman, wrote many small pieces of prose and verse but never published. Through his mother, he was related to Ralph 18
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Sneyd and may therefore have been distantly related to Maria Edgeworth. Anna Maria belonged to a small coterie of Irish women who travelled in Russia in the first decades of the nineteenth century. She lived near Moscow with the Russian Princess Daschkaw, a highly educated woman who became Director of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in St. Petersburg. As a patron of the arts the Princess invited in 1779 the Irish architect James Gandon to St Petersburg to work there. According to the Cork historian John Windele, the princess was one of the principal instruments in the assassination of Tsar Peter III, and transference of the Russian Crown to Catherine II also known as Catherine the Great (wife of Tsar Peter III). This work was wrongly attributed to William Pitt Scargill but Windele in his Historical Notices of the City of Cork (p.130) states "She [Miss Chetwode] has written Blue-Stocking Hall, Snugborough, and other novels". Blue-Stocking Hall is mostly set in County Kerry, and partly in England and on the continent, and strongly advocates the education of women through a series of letters written by the main protagonists. As well as the main theme of the importance of learning in women, the novel deals with the education of the lower classes in Ireland. Marriage is also a topic of discussion and is presented as an intellectual partnership. Marriage for money or social aggrandizement is seen as abhorrent, and remaining single is a preferred alternative. Contemporary literature, such as Maria Edgeworth's Absentee is discussed, as well as religion and politics. Edgeworth herself wrote of Blue-Stocking Hall that "notwithstanding its horrid title I thought there was a great deal of good, and of good sense in it".
RARE THREE DECKER BY CORK AUTHOR 55. CHETWODE, Anna Maria. Tales of my Time. By the Author of Blue-Stocking Hall. Three volumes in one. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1829. First edition. pp. (1) [5], 6297, (2) [1], 311, (3) [1], 351. Modern green buckram. Some mild foxing. A very good set. Extremely rare. â‚Ź785 COPAC locates 1 copy only. NLI holds the Joly copy. Loeber C203. The first volume 'Who is she?' is set in England and on the Continent. 'The young reformers' is set in Ireland, the Continent, and Canada. The main character, Albert Fitzmaurice, the son of a Church of Ireland minister, lives quietly with his sweet and accomplished wife in relative obscurity. Their neighbours, including one whose house is called 'Painesville', are deeply steeped in republican ideas, 19
De Búrca Ra re Books with bookcases filled with volumes by Thomas Paine, William Godwin, Count Constantin François de Volney, and Mary Wollstonecraft, among others. They introduce Albert to members of the society of United Irishmen. Albert's parents send him to Quebec to avoid further contacts with the rebels. Over time he comes to appreciate religion and to see the dangers of rebelling against the established order. He visits France where he meets republicans such as Paine and Volney, who disappoint him. When he inherits some money he buys an estate in Ireland to further the cause of the country by peaceful means.
56. [CHURCH OF IRELAND] Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical, Treated upon by the Archbishops and Bishops and the rest of the Cleargie of Ireland. And agreed upon with the Kings Majesties Licence in their Synod begun at Dublin, Anno Domini 1634. And in the year of the reign of our soveraign Lord Charles, by the grace of God King of Great Brittain, France and Ireland the tenth. Dublin: Printed by Andrew Crook and Samuel Helsham, [1687]. Quarto. pp. [viii], 52. Recent quarter brown morocco. Title offset. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €765 ESTC S107631. The 1st STC printing - 14265 supplemented by three Wing printings. This has proved a most confusing piece of Dublin printing and for a long time the Wing entry carrying the date 1634 was believed to be an authentic first edition.
COL. AUGUSTINE FITZGERALD'S COPY 57. CHURCHILL, Charles. Poems. By Charles Churchill. In three volumes. Printed from the Quarto Edition: with Large Corrections and Additions. The Fourth Edition. Volume one only. Engraved frontispiece of the author. Dublin: Printed for Peter Wilson, in Dame-street, 1766. pp. [v], 184. Contemporary full calf, 'Col. Augustine / FitzGerald: 1769' in gilt on upper cover. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands, title in gilt on maroon letterpiece in the second, the remainder tooled with a gilt shell device. A very good copy. €275 A branch of the Geraldines of Pallas, County Limerick, was established at Carrigoran, parish of Kilnasoolagh, barony of Bunratty Lower, County Clare, from the 1660s. Edward FitzGerald of Carrigoran, Member of Parliament for County Clare 1782, was left a large estate by his relative Colonel Augustine FitzGerald of Sixmilebridge and Silvergrove, parish of Killuran, barony of Tulla Lower. Colonel Augustine FitzGerald was married to Mercy Ryan, a daughter of Morgan Ryan of Silvergrove. Edward FitzGerald's eldest son Augustine was created a baronet in 1822. In the 1870s the FitzGerald estate was comprised of 14,915 acres. Griffith's Valuation shows that Sir Edward FitzGerald's estate was mainly located in the parishes of Kilfarboy, barony of Ibrickan and Kilmacrehy and Kilmanaheen, barony of Corcomroe. Lady FitzGerald also was the immediate lessor of the townland of Urard, parish of Fennor, barony of Slievardagh, county Tipperary. This 1,043 acre townland, the estate of Lieutenant Colonel Augustine FitzGerald was advertised for sale in November 1856. By the 1880s the FitzGeralds had an estate in Cornwall. When Clara Lady FitzGerald, the widow of the last baronet, died in 1922 Carrigoran was sold to the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word.
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De Búrca Ra re Books 58. CLARKE, Aidan. The Old English in Ireland 1625-42. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1966. pp. 288. Blue paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Owner's bookplate and signature on front endpaper. Some spotting to fore-edge, otherwise a very good copy in dust jacket. €65 'The Old English' was the title given to the descendants of the Anglo-Normans who first came over to Ireland in 1169. They combined loyalty to England with a Catholicism that, since the Reformation, no longer attracted English support. They also controlled one-third of the land of Ireland at a time when political acceptability was becoming dependant on religious conformity. By 1625 religion had become a matter of conflict with their retention of political power and control over the land. Yet in 1641, the outbreak of the Civil War, they joined the Irish Catholic Confederacy.
59. CLARKE, Austin. Sister Eucharia. A Play in Three Scenes. Dublin: The Orwell Press, 1939. pp. 32. Quarto. Stiff white paper wrappers. Edition limited to 300 copies. A fine copy in printed dust jacket. €45 Austin [Augustine Joseph] Clarke (1896-1974), poet, playwright and novelist was born in Dublin. Educated at Belvedere College and U.C.D., he studied under Douglas Hyde and Thomas MacDonagh. He graduated with a first in English Language and Literature, and obtained an M.A. on the Jacobean dramatist John Ford. In 1917 he succeeded to the lectureship left vacant after the execution of MacDonagh the previous year. He worked as a book-reviewer in London for a number of years before returning to Ireland. In the 1940's with Robert Farren he established the Dublin Verse-Speaking Society, and in 1944 its theatrical offshoot, the Lyric Theatre Company
60. [CLARKE, Austin] A Tribute to Austin Clarke on his Seventieth Birthday 9 May 1966. Compiled and edited by John Montague and Liam Miller. Illustrated. Dublin: Dolmen, 1966. pp. 28. Stiff white paper wrappers. Edition limited to 1,000 copies. A very good copy in printed dust jacket. €30 Miller 97 Contributors include: Thomas Kinsella; John Montague; Hugh Mac Diarmuid; Serge Fauchereau; Padraic Colum; Ted Hughes; Richard Weber; Christopher Ricks; Anthony Kerrigan; Denis Donoghue; Charles Tomlinson, and Liam Miller.
A TESTAMENT TO THEIR COURAGE AND BRAVERY 61. CLARKE, P.J. & FEENEY, Michael. Mayo Comrades of the Great War 1914 - 1919. Profusely illustrated with coloured and black and white illustrations. Ballina: Clarke, 2006. First edition. Folio. pp. xxiii, 360. Signed by the authors. Pictorial paper boards. Superb copy in coloured illustrated dust jacket. €125 In 1914 those who volunteered were regarded as heroes, encouraged to go by churches of every denomination, but by 1916, after the Easter Rising and the executions which followed, attitudes hardened towards England. When the war was over those that survived returned to a changed society. In Ireland they were ignored and forgotten in all but the Northern counties. Since then amnesia set in and our history books don't give them a mention. Fortunately, things are changing and since the advent of television there is now a greater understanding of the sacrifice made by these men. We hope this book will help bring about a full and proper recognition of them.
RARE WATERFORD PRINTING 62. CLARKE, Thomas. History of Intolerance: with Observations on the Unreasonableness and Injustice of Persecution, and on the Equity and Wisdom of Unrestricted Religious Liberty. Waterford: Printed by John Bull, Bookseller, for J.R. Birnie, R. Farrell, ... Button and Son, London, 1819. pp. (1) xxviii, 440, (2) [iii], 488, + errata. Modern half brown morocco on marbled boards. Inoffensive water stain to two leaves at front, otherwise a very good set. Exceedingly rare. €575 COPAC locates 2 sets only [Cambridge and Oxford].
63. CLAYTON, John. A Sermon Preach'd at St Michan's Church in Dublin, February the 23d 1700. Upon Receiving into the Communion of the Church of England ... Sir Terence MacMahon ... and Christopher Dunn, Converts from the Church of Rome. Wherein is an Account also of a late Controversie betwixt the Author and some Romanists. By John Clayton, Praebendary of St. Michan's. Dublin: Printed by Joseph Ray, and are to be Sold at his Shop in Skinner-Row, over 21
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THE UNFORTUNATE ROBERT EMMET 64. [CODE, Henry Brereton] The Insurrection of the Twenty-Third July, 1803. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry and Campbell, 10 Back Lane, [1803]. First edition. pp. xiii, 110. Occasional light foxing. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. A very good copy. Very rare. €475 COPAC locates 6 copies only. Preface signed: H.B.C., the NLI states it is Henry Brereton Code. Plowden in his History of Ireland Dublin, 1811, says of this work: "Mr Marsden (an Under Secretary at Dublin Castle) procured a report of all those trials to be published in a very garbled manner, with a preface, introduction and conclusion, which bespeak the tendency of the politician". The Special Commission was set for Wednesday, 31st, August, 1803. Lord Norbury, Justice Finucane, and Barons George and Daly presiding, in Green Street Courthouse. Bills of indictment were found against the following: Felix Rourke, John Killin, John McCann, James Byrne, Walter Clare, John Donelly, Nicholas Farrel alias Tyrrel, Laurence Begley, Michael Kelly, Martin Bourke, Edward Kearney, John Begg, Thomas Maxwell Roche, Patrick Maguire, Joseph Doran, and Owen Kirwan. In the preface the author states: "The only man in the late conspiracy who possessed talents, and a capacious range of mind, has borne, against France, a testimony which should never be forgotten by his countrymen. So apprehensive was the unfortunate Robert Emmet, even of a limited and restrained alliance with her, that he commenced the insurrection with means the most disproportionate, and under a strong impression of despair, rather than seek, or wait for her assistance". Code, the author, a spy in the pay of the Castle, was editor and proprietor of the controversial Dublin Warder.
See items 63 & 66 65. COFFEY, Thomas M. Agony at Easter. The 1916 Irish Uprising. With maps. London: Harrap, 1970. First edition. pp. ix, [4], 271. Paper boards. A very good copy. €65 Out of the agony of Easter in 1916, came a resurgence of the Irish nationalism which led ultimately to Irish independence. This work is a dramatic minute-by-minute account of the uprising. 22
De Búrca Ra re Books EXCEEDINGLY RARE DUBLIN PRINTING 66. [COLLEDGE, Stephen] The Arraignment, Tryal And Condemnation of Stephen Colledge for High Treason, in Conspiring the Death of the King, the Levying of War, and the Subversion of Government. Before the Right Honourable Sir Francis North, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common-Pleas, and other Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer and Goal-Delivery held at the city of Oxon. For the County of Oxon. the 17th and 18th of August 1681. Dublin: Printed by Joseph Ray at Colledge-Green for a Society of Stationers, 1681. Quarto. pp. 140. Recent Quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt along spine. All edges red. 'The' in title close shaved. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €875 ESTC R214886 locates 8 copies only. Sweeney 209. The 2nd of two Wing printings - A 3762. Joseph Ray may have been encouraged to publish this reprint of the first London edition by the gruesome nature of the sentence imposed and carried out upon Colledge, a carpenter by trade and native of Oxford. "You shall be drawn on an Hurdle to the place of Execution where you shall be hanged up by the Neck, and be cut down alive, your Privy-members shall be cut off, and your Bowels taken out and burnt before your face, your Head shall be cut from your Body, your body be divided into four quarters which are to be at the King's dispose". Includes Colledge's petition to the King.
67. [COLLINS & GRIFFITH] Arthur Griffith Michael Collins. A Pictorial History. Cover illustration by Harry Clarke. Numerous other illustrations. Dublin: Martin Lester, Ltd., n.d. (1922). Quarto. First edition, first issue. pp. 62. Original illustrated wrappers. Spine expertly rebacked, some staining to covers, otherwise a good copy. Very scarce. €375 Steenson B39.a. Contributions by Beaslai, O'Higgins, A.S. Green, MacNeill. With General Mulcahy's oration at Collins' graveside.
STRABANE AUTHOR 68. COLLINS, William. Dalaradia: or, The days of King Milcho. Frontispiece. New York: D. & J. Sadlier 1880. pp. [2], 209, [1]. Pictorial green cloth. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €285 COPAC locates the TCD copy only. William Collins (1838-1890) was born in Strabane, County Tyrone. Novelist, poet and Fenian adventurer, William Collins' family originally came from Munster. At age 15 he ran away from home and emigrated to Canada, and thence to the US. He contributed poems to the Boston Pilot, worked for various newspapers, and published ballads, songs and poems, and Sybilla, a tale of the County of Tyrone? (no copy located). He took part in the Fenian raid on Canada in 1866. He died in the United States? in 1890. Historical novel set in Dalaradia (County Antrim) in the fifth century, it features the sons and daughters of Milcho, Chief of Dalaradia, and tells about the conversion by St Patrick of many of the individuals in Milcho's household. Relates the arrival of St Patrick at Tara, and ends with the nuptials of Mahon and his love, Sybilla, who have both become converts.
69. COLUM, Padraic. Irish Elegies. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1963. Third edition. pp. 23.Quarter vellum parchment on blue boards. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. €35 Memories of Roger Casement, Kuno Meyer, John Butler Yeats, Arthur Griffith, Thomas Hughes Kelly, Dudley Digges, James Joyce, Monsignor Padraig de Brun, Seumas O'Sullivan, Allen, Larkin & O'Brien.
70. CONNELLAN, Thaddaeus. The King's Letter, Translated into Irish; with a Grammatical Introduction to the Irish Language, and Reading Lessons: for the use of His Majesty's Irish Subjects. Second edition, enlarged and improved. Map. London: Printed by R. Watts. By Keene, Dublin; and Blackwood, Edinburgh: 1825. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. A very good copy. Very rare. €145 COPAC locates 7 copies only. Thady Connellan (1780-1854), Gaelic scholar, was a kinsman of Owen and from the same barony in Sligo. Lady Morgan in her Patriotic Sketches recounts meeting with 'Thady O'Conolan', a schoolteacher, "a personage not only highly esteemed by his rural disciples, but looked upon by his less intelligent neighbours as a prodigy of learning, erudition and genius". In a brogue "that beggared description" he remarked to Lady Morgan that Irish was "the finest and loftiest tongue in the world". Thady invited Lady Morgan to visit his school-house and to her amazement she discovered that 23
De BĂşrca Ra re Books Thadys' 'seminary' was little more than 'a miserable cabin' situated on the outskirts of a desolate wood. His 'seminary' was so ill-equipped with text-books that a class of seven had to read together from one copy of Homer, which was all the 'Corkhill lyceum', possessed. Thady embraced the Protestant faith when he was about thirty years of age, and from then on he worked for the Bible Societies, promoting the education of his countrymen through their native language. In The King's Letter, he requests that "whosoever can or may read this work, will teach, or cause to be taught, gratis, twenty-four individuals to read this book; in order that each of them will instruct twenty-four others". He worked tirelessly in 'converting' his fellow-Sligonians. Sir Robert Peel referred to Connellan as "a most efficient agent in communicating spiritual knowledge to the Irish peasantry".
71. [CONNEMARA ORPHANS] Records of the Connemara Orphans' Nursery. From its Commencement, 19th Oct., 1849 to the end of the year 1853. Illustrated. Wonston: J. Shayler. London: J. Nisbet, 1854. 16mo. pp. 216. Limp cloth, titled in gilt. Extremely rare. â‚Ź950 No copy located on COPAC. The Irish Church Missions was founded in 1849 with the aim of converting the Roman Catholics of Ireland to Protestantism. The inspiration for its beginning came from the Rev. Alexander Dallas, Rector of Wonston, Hampshire, who since 1843 had been involved in actively evangelizing Catholic people in
Ireland. Dallas began his missionary work by sending over 20,000 letters to householders throughout Ireland. He followed this up by sending eight missionaries to preach throughout the country and personally conducted a preaching tour in Galway and Connemara. The result of his missionary work by 1848 was the setting up of a missionary school and church in Castlekerke, near Galway. From 1846 the Mission was supported by wealthy English Businessman Edward Durrant. Dallas advanced the work through the provision of Scripture Readers, missionary clergymen and the support of the Bishops and Clergy of the Church of Ireland. Scripture Readers were fluent Irish speakers who were trained to preach the Gospel and refute what they considered false doctrine. Initially the work was concentrated in Connemara and Achill.
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In the years following the Famine, a total of 64 mission stations was established in west Connemara, some of which functioned for decades while others were relatively short-lived. But their impact was significant. By the time of his death in 1869, Dallas had planted 21 churches, 49 schools, and 4 orphanages and had between 400 to 500 full-time workers employed in preaching the Gospel.
The Irish Church Mission was particularly controversial during the period of the Great Irish Famine (1845-1852) believing the famine to be a judgment from God on Irish Catholics who had clung to the Catholic faith - "The truth of the Scriptures was verified in the groans of the dying, and their wails for the dead". 25
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The organisation is synonymous with the souperism where relief was often conditional upon the conversion of the recipient to Anglicanism. Miriam Moffitt, stated in her book Soupers and Jumpers, that in reality the poor of Connemara found themselves pawns in a power struggle between the Protestant and Roman Catholic churches. This episode in Connemara's long history still engenders passionate feelings today. The expression 'they took the soup' is still very much alive. At the time the campaign for souls splintered communities, and divided families. Undoubtedly these desperate and vulnerable poor initially benefited from food, education and other forms of relief. While many who converted to Protestantism did so genuinely, and remained in their new religion for years or generations after; it is believed that most poor Catholics merely assumed the trappings of the new religion simply to survive, or for their children to be fed and sheltered on a regular basis.
72. CONNOLLY, S.J. Priests and People in Pre-Famine Ireland 1780-1845. Dublin & New York: Gill and St. Martin's Press, 1982. pp. ix, 338. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in faded dust jacket. €150 An analysis of the position and influence of the Catholic Church and its clergy in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century. It throws new light on relations between priests, and also reveals the difference between pre-famine Catholicism and that which followed.
73. [CORK'S FIGHTING STORY] Rebel Cork's Fighting Story from 1916 to the Truce with Britain. Illustrated. Tralee: Anvil Books, 1947. First edition. pp. 208. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €95 74. CORNER, [Julia], Miss. History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, adapted for Youth, Schools, and Families. New edition, revised and enlarged. Sixth thousand. With engraved plates and folding map. London: Dean & Son, [1840] pp. iv, 186, 3 [leaves of plates]. Publisher's brown cloth, title in blind on upper cover and in gilt on spine. Cloth faded. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €295 COPAC locates 2 copies only. Map of Ireland drawn and engraved by S. Clapp. Engravings by Davenport after paintings by Gilbert. Engravings: St. Patrick preaching Christianity to the King and Nobles at Tara; Lord Thomas FitzGerald renouncing his allegiance to Henry VIII in St Mary's Abbey, Dublin; The entry of James II into Dublin.
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CONNER OF MANCH COPY 75. [CORRESPONDENTS] The Correspondents, an Original Novel in a Series of Letters. The fourth edition. Dublin: Printed by John Exshaw, 1778. pp. xii, 213, [1]. With a half-title. Contemporary full worn calf. Tear to corner of half-title, corners worn. Conner of Manch copy. Very rare. €395 COPAC locates 4 copies only. ESTC N1998. Not in OCLC. F.G. Black 58. Block p. 20, giving tentative attribution to Miss Berry. Halkett and Laing note a MS inscription in a copy: 'Said to be the real correspondence of George, Lord Lyttleton, and Mrs. Peach, who afterwards married his son'. Based on letters supposed to have passed between Lord Lyttleton and Mrs. Peach (widow of Gov. Peach of Bombay) who afterwards married Thomas Lyttleton. First printed in London, 1775.
76. [CRESWICK, Thomas] Picturesque Scenery in Ireland. Drawn by Thomas Creswick, R.A. Engraved on Steel. With descriptive jottings by A Tourist. New York: R. Worthington, 1881. Small quarto. pp. x, 126. Green cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Occasional light foxing, otherwise a very good copy. €235 IN ORIGINAL PRINTED BOARDS 77. CROMWELL, Thomas. Excursions through Ireland: comprising Topographical and Historical Delineations; together with Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry. Remains of Antiquity, and every other object of interest or curiosity. Forming a complete guide for the traveller and tourist. Illustrated with 136 engraved plates after Petrie. With engraved and printed titles to each of the three volumes. London: Longman, 1820. pp. (1) [iv], 192, (2) [iv], 192, (3) [iv], 160, 4 (index). Printed boards, spines expertly rebacked with new printed titles. Minor foxing. Very good. Complete sets are very rare. €675 27
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Thomas Kitson Cromwell (1792-1870), dissenting minister. At an early age he was employed by the literary department of the well known London publishing firm, Longmans. He was a notable antiquary, and member of the Society of Antiquaries in London. He contributed many historical articles to literary and periodical journals and wrote the text for his various travels throughout England, Scotland and Ireland. His Excursions Through Ireland, were originally planned as a twelve volume work for the whole country, to be published monthly, accompanied with 400 engravings. He succeeded only in publishing three. The present work covers in the first volume - Dublin and its Environs; the second and third - Counties Dublin, Meath, Louth, Westmeath, Longford and Kildare, Kilkenny, Queens County, Wexford and Wicklow. The superbly executed and beautiful steel engraved plates are mainly from drawings by the famous Irish scholar and artist, George Petrie. When he was about nineteen he began to make excursions through the country in search of the picturesque, and to examine and take careful notes of antiquities. His remarks upon them were even then characterised by a remarkable acuteness of observation. He was also interested in music and commenced at an early age his collection of Irish airs. One of his most profitable works was furnishing sketches for illustrated books relating to Ireland such as Cromwell's Excursions. Petrie's sketches are charming in their truthfulness and delicate execution, he was highly esteemed in his time and extravagantly praised by his friends. These illustrations exemplify his curiosity in the history of the ancient remains, dismantled castles, ruined churches, round towers and crosses. Dr. Charles Graves said of him: "He was unsparing of his labour, and indifferent about reward. Petrie united qualities which are seldom possessed by the same individual; he had the enthusiasm and the imaginative power which are essential to the artist; he also possessed the sagacity and calmness of judgment which are commonly supposed to be characteristic of the man of science. There was in him a singular gracefulness, combined with masculine force".
MONSELL OF TERVOE COPY 78. CRONNELLY, Richard F. A History of the Clan Eoghan or Eoghanachts, descendants of Eoghan More or Eugene The Great. Compiled from all the accessible sources of Irish family history. Dublin: Printed for the author by Goodwin, Son and Nethercroft, 1864. pp. xii, 137-267. Publisher's green pebbled cloth, harp surrounded by a garland of shamrocks in gilt on upper cover, replicated in blind on lower, title in gilt on spine. Tervoe armorial bookplate. A fine copy. Very rare. â‚Ź295 Genealogical notices of the Clan Eoghan: The M'Carthys; The Mac Carthys Mor; The Mac Carthys of Muskerry; Mac Carthy of Carrignavar; Mac Carthy of Aglish; Mac Carthy of Cloghroe; Mac Carthy na Mona; The Mac Donnell Carties; The Mac Carthy Reagh; Mac Carthy Duna; 28
De Búrca Ra re Books Mac Carthy of Ballynoodie; Mac Carthy Glas, O'Keeffe; O'Keeffe of Ballymacquirk; Mac Auliffe; O'Donoghue of Cashel, The O'Donoghues of Ossory; O'Collins; O'Connell; O'Daly; O'Mahony, O'Callaghan; O'Callanan; O'Moriarty; O'Cullen; O'Sullivan; Mac Gillicuddy of the Reeks, O'Quill; O'Riordan; O'Shea; O'Lyon; O'Cronan, and O'Donovan. Complete for the Munster families.
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY JACK B. YEATS ET AL. 79. [CUALA PRESS BROADSIDES] A Collection of Old and New Songs 1935. Songs by W.B. Yeats, James Stephens, F.R. Higgins, Frank O'Connor, Lynn Doyle, Bryan Guinness, Padraic Colum. Together with: Broadsides a Collection of New Irish and English Songs 1937. Edited by W.B. Yeats, Dorothy Wellesley and F.R. Higgins. Songs by W.J. Turner, Oliver Gogarty, Hilaire Belloc, Dorothy Wellesley, Edith Sithwell, Gordon Bottomley and Walter De La Mare. Two volumes. Shannon: I.U.P. for T.M. MacGlinchey, Reprinted, 1971. Folio. Reprint of the Cuala original editions. Quarter linen on printed green paper boards. Spine of one volume a little darkened. A very good pair. €275
Colour illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, Victor Brown, Harry Kernoff, Maurice MacGonigal, Sean O'Sullivan and E.C. Peet. Music by Arthur Duff, W.J. Turner, Edmund Dulac, Frank Liebich, Hilda Matheson, Art O'Murnaghan and Hilaire Belloc.
80. CURRY, John. An Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland, from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, to the Settlement under King William with the State of the Irish Catholics, from the Settlement to the Relaxation of the Popery Laws in the year 1778. Extracted from Parliamentary Records, State Acts, and other authentic materials. By J. Curry, M.D. A new and improved edition. Dublin: Printed by R. Conolly, 70 Thomas Street, 1810. pp. [20], xvii, [1], 660, [11]. Contemporary full half calf. A very good copy. Rare. €175 COPAC locates 4 copies only of this edition. John Curry a descendant of the ancient family of O'Corra of Cavan, was a medical doctor and historian of note. His grandfather commanded a troop of horse at the battle of Aughrim for the Jacobites, after which the family's fortunes changed for the worse. Losing their lands in Cavan, the author's father took to commerce, thus enabling young John to have a decent education. Due to his religion he was disqualified from attending the university at Dublin. He therefore studied medicine at Paris and 29
De Búrca Ra re Books obtained a diploma for the practice of physic at Rheims. Returning to Dublin he rose to prominence as a physician and in his spare time concentrated on the history of his native land. To counteract the prejudices against his fellow Catholics caused by the sermons preached annually at Christ Church on the memorial day of the bloody Irish rebellion of 1641, he published a Dialogue in 1747 which was attacked in a large pamphlet by Walter Harris ["a gentleman unversed in the philosophy of history, and flagrantly abusive ..." C. O'Conor]. He responded in a book entitled Historical Memoirs which was well received, and subsequently in 1775 published his 'magnum opus', the above title furthering the cause of his fellow countrymen.
81. CURRY, William. The Picture of Dublin or Stranger's Guide to the Irish Metropolis. Containing an account of every object and institution worthy of notice, together with a brief description of the surrounding country and of its geology. New edition. With a large folding plan of the city and thirteen views. Dublin: Curry, 1835. 16mo. pp. [xvi], 352, 16. Engraved half-title. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. €250 RARE WORK BY A COMPASSIONATE ENGLISHMAN 82. CURWEN, J.C. Observations on the State of Ireland, principally directed to its Agriculture and Rural Population; in a series of Letters, written on a tour of that country. Two volumes. London: Baldwin, 1818. pp. (1) xx, 435, xii, 355. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on black morocco labels on spines. Very good. Very scarce. €385 Bradshaw 7784 Not in Gilbert. John Christian Curwen (1756-1828), came from a Manx family and was a first cousin of Fletcher Christian, the Mutineer of The Bounty. For the best part of forty years he was M.P. for Carlisle and Cumberland, and a friend of Edmund Burke. A pioneering agriculturalist he was awarded the silver medal of the Irish Farming Society. In August 1813, in the company of Thomas Quaile, a Manx lawyer, he came on a tour to Ireland. They had their own carriage and coachman, and crossing from Scotland to Donaghadee they visited Belfast, Derry, Galway, Killarney, Cork, Waterford, Kilkenny and Dublin. Sometimes they stayed in grand houses such as Ardbraccan, the seat of the Bishop of Meath and sometimes, at the other extreme, in wretched inns such as one at Dungarvan where, "after passing a whole day without refreshment [we arrived] at a town with a fine sounding name, which sent two members to the Irish parliament, and yet actually affording nothing on which the demands of hunger and thirst could be satisfied, but indifferent bread and worse tea". The book contains many graphic descriptions of 'cabins' and the miseries suffered by the Irish peasantry. In all his writings he shows deep compassion for those wretched people, and yet, he says: "The Irish peasant, however, though poor in what the world calls riches, possesses that in his cabin which the mines of Peru could not furnish ... a warmth of heart, an overflowing of the kindest domestic affections and of the purest joys of life". On the whole the book is taken up with detailed accounts of what he saw in the fields, of what farmers told him of crops and yields and rents. He was appalled by the reliance on potatoes: "The greatest political alteration that could take place in this distressed country would be a dislike to potatoes, and a general preference in the rising generation to bread and animal food". Elsewhere he speaks of the calamity that would follow a failure of that crop "which Heaven avert!". How prophetic his words were when one considers the appalling consequences of the Great Famine due to the failure of that crop. An important and rare work by a compassionate Englishman.
83. CUSACK, Mary Frances. The Black Pope. A History of the Jesuits. Illustrated. London: Marshall Russell & Co Ltd, [1896]. First edition. pp. 406, [4], 4 (advertisement). Publishers decorated brown cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. New endpapers. A very good copy. Very rare. €185 COPAC locates 4 copies only.
84. DALY, Martin [Stephen McKenna]. Memories of the Dead. Dublin: Powell Press, n.d. (c. 1916). pp 20. Printed wrappers, repair to cover. Staples rusted. Very good. Very scarce. €250 Carty 619. Personal memories of Casement, Ceannt, Tom Clarke, Peadar Ó Maicin, Major McBride, SheehySkeffington, Thomas MacDonagh, The O'Rahilly and Pádraic Mac Piarais, ending with an eye witness account of the scene as Pearse read the Proclamation on Easter Monday. The author was a writer and a friend of Synge. 30
De Búrca Ra re Books 85. DALY, Rev. Robert. D.D. Letters and Papers of the Late Theodosia A. Viscountess Powerscourt. Edited by The Rev. Robert Daly, Rector of Powerscourt; now Bishop of Cashel, etc. Eighth edition. London: Broom, 1867. 16mo. pp. xi, [1], 288. Contemporary full polished calf, covers framed by double gilt and double blind fillets. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt on black morocco letterpiece on the second; fore-edges and turn-ins gilt, brown endpapers. All edges gilt and gauffered. Some minor spotting. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. A fine copy. €145
No copy located on COPAC. This edition not in NLI. Theodosia Wingfield, nee Theodosia Anne Howard, Lady Powerscourt (1800-1836) was the daughter of Hon. Hugh Howard (son of Ralph Howard, 1st Viscount Wicklow) and Catherine Bligh. She became an Evangelical under the influence of the staunch Evangelical Clergyman, Robert Daly, in 1819. She married Richard Wingfield, 5th Viscount Powerscourt, son of Richard Wingfield, 4th Viscount Powerscourt and Lady Catherine Meade, in August 1822. Her husband died on 9 August 1823 at age 32, so she became a dowager at an early age. She was a close friend of John Nelson Darby and sponsored the Powerscourt prophecy conferences in the 1830s.
EDITION LIMITED TO 100 COPIES 86. [DAVISON, George Willets & DAVIDSON, Harriet R. B.] Our Fortnight in Ireland. With large folding map. [New York?] Privately printed, December, 1930. pp. 48. Edition limited to 100 copies. With co-authors' signatures on title. Very good in green paper boards with printed title on upper cover. €235 WILLIAM J. MacNEVEN UNITED IRISHMAN'S COPY 87. DE LOLME, Jean Louis. The Constitution of England: Or An Account of the English Government; In which it is compared with the Republican Form of Government, and occasionally with the other Monarchies in Europe. By J.L. De Lolme, advocate, citizen of Geneva. Translated by Gilbert Stuart. Dublin: Printed for W. Wilson, [No. 6.] Dame-street, 1775. pp. [ix], 257, [1]. With a half-title. Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Bookplate of Franz Pollack Parnau on front pastedown. Stamp of Dr. Heinrich Haerdtl on front endpaper, also with signature of the United Irishman, W.J. MacNeven, M.D. A very good copy with some minor wear to extremities. An unique memento of a romantic period of Irish history. €765 ESTC T165383 William James MacNeven, M.D. (1763-1841), a distinguished United Irishman was born at Ballynahowna, near Aughrim, County Galway, where his father possessed a small estate, allotted to an 'innocent Papist' who in the Cromwellian Settlement was transplanted to Connaught. Under the care of his uncle, Baron MacNeven, who resided at Prague where he was physician to the Empress Maria Theresa. William was educated there and at Vienna, where he studied medicine and graduated in 1783. The following year he returned to Dublin where he soon built up a large practice. MacNeven took a keen interest in the Catholic Emancipation movement, becoming an active member of the Catholic Committee and was elected Navan representative at the Catholic Convention of December, 1792 at Back Lane, where he took a firm stand with Tone in opposition to Lord Kenmare's policies. Encouraged by Lord Edward Fitzgerald and Arthur O'Connor he joined the United Irishmen. In 1798 he was arrested with the other leaders and imprisoned at Kilmainham, and later at Fort George in Scotland. In 1802 he was released and joined the French Army as a Captain in the Irish Brigade. Deceived and disappointed at the failure of a proposed invasion of Ireland, he resigned his commission and sailed for the United States. From 1805 until his death, he held several important medical positions there and worked to promote the welfare of his fellow countrymen.
88. DENNEHY, W.F. The Story of the Union. Told by its Plotters. Dublin: J.J. Lalor, 1891. pp. [1], 163, 6 (index). Recent cloth with original wrappers bound in. Repair to spine. €175 31
De Búrca Ra re Books In the introduction the author states: "The following chapters originally appeared in 'The Irish Catholic', from which paper they are now republished with some additions. Based as they are upon the actual words and writings of the chief actors in the unparalleled conspiracy by which Ireland was deprived of her ancient legislature and her constitution violated, it is hoped that they may be the means of extending accurate knowledge as to the baseness of the means adopted to secure those ends".
89. DE VALERA, R. & O NUALLAIN. S. Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Vol. II. County Mayo. With numerous maps, plans and photographs. Dublin: S.O. 1964. Folio. pp. xv, 121, 74 (maps & plans), 41 (plates). Black buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Tear to frontispiece repaired. A fine copy in printed dust jacket. €125 THE DEVLIN CLAN PRESENTATION COPY TO EOIN MacNEILL
90. DEVELIN, Joseph Chubb. The O'Develins of Tyrone. The Story of an Irish Sept. Now represented by the families of Devlin, Develin, Develyn, Develon and Devellen. With coloured armorial frontispiece, and maps on endpapers. Vermont: Tuttle, 1938. pp. 137. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Signed presentation copy from the author to Professor Eoin MacNeill. A very good copy. €275 The principal sept of the Devlins belongs to County Tyrone. Their chiefs were lords of the territory known as Munterdevlin on the Tyrone shore of Lough Neagh. Eoin MacNeill (1867-1945) Irish scholar, nationalist, revolutionary and politician, was born John MacNeill in Glenarm, County Antrim. MacNeill has been described as "the father of the modern study of early Irish medieval history". A key figure of the Gaelic revival, he was a cofounder of the Gaelic League, to preserve Irish language and culture. In 1913 he established the Irish Volunteers and served as their Chief-of-Staff. Though he held this position at the outbreak of the Easter Rising, he took no role in it or its planning, and even went so far as to try to prevent it. He was later elected to the First Dáil as a member of Sinn Féin.
91. DILLON, John Joseph. The Letters of HibernAnglus: containing Strictures on the conduct of The Present Administration in Ireland, and a Vindication of the proceedings adopted since the regency by the Irish Catholics, with other papers [Upon the Nature and Effects of the Legislative Union of Ireland with Great Britain. By a Scotsman]. London: J. Ridgway, 1811. pp. xxix, [ii], 148, lxix. Recent quarter morocco on marbled 32
De Búrca Ra re Books boards. Presentation inscription from the author on top of titlepage, barely visible. A very good copy. €295 COPAC locates 6 copies only. Bradshaw 5661. Unpopularity of the Administration in Dublin, with calls throughout the country for a repeal of the Union and fair treatment for the Catholics of Ireland.
ONEALE GUILTY OF HIGH TREASON 92. [DIURNALL] The Diurnall: or, The Heads of all the Proceedings in Parliament, from the 6th. of December, to the 13th. thereof. 1641. Wherein they voted Oneale guilty of high Treason; with certaine Letters from Ireland, wherein they make knowne that whole Counties revolt to the rebels, so that they are within foure miles of Dublin, driving away their cattell, and destroying their Goods; besides stopping them up from bringing necessary provision into the Citie. Also, How the French Embassadour hath begged a Pardon for the 7. Priests condemned. And, How Justice Long was lately committed to the Tower. London: Printed for J. W. and T. B., 1641. Quarto. pp. [i], 7. Recent half morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Of the utmost rarity. A fine copy. €1,250 Not in Wing or Sweeney. ESTC R235656 locates the NLI copy only. Sir Phelim O'Neill of Kinard (?1605-1653), M.P. for Dungannon, led the Irish Rebellion of 1641 in Ulster. Disillusioned with constitutional methods of resisting further repression of Catholics, O'Neill became involved in a plot with Conor Maguire, Hugh MacMahon and Rory O'More to seize Dublin Castle and swiftly take over the other important towns of Ireland. After this, they planned to issue their demands for full rights for Catholics and Irish self government in the King's name. It was arranged that the insurrection should begin on the 23 October, that date was selected because it was a market day in Dublin and the presence of strangers in the streets of the capitol would not be noticed. That plan failed through the carelessness of MacMahon, and he, along with Lord Maguire were captured by the authorities, and were afterwards hanged. Rory O'More, who was also in the city managed to escape. O'Neill went ahead and started the rebellion in the north, capturing the important fort of Charlemont, but quickly found that he could not control the Irish Catholic peasantry he had raised. These people, many of whom had been displaced during the Plantation of Ulster, began attacking the Scottish and English Protestant settlers. On the military side, O'Neill was also sidelined. After his disastrous defeat at Glenmaquin near Raphoe in County Donegal, his kinsman, Owen Roe O'Neill, a professional soldier, arrived from the Spanish Netherlands and was made general of the Confederate's Ulster army. Phelim O'Neill was a cavalry commander in this force, and spent most of the next six years fighting against the Scottish Covenanter army that had landed in Ulster. He fought in the army's victory at the Battle of Benburb. This was not enough to stop Ireland being re-conquered by the New Model Army of Oliver Cromwell in 1649-53. The well trained and supplied Parliamentarians crushed all Confederate and Royalist resistance and imposed a harsh settlement on Irish Catholics. In February 1653 Philip Roe MacHugh O'Neill betrayed Phelim's hiding-place in Tyrone, and he was brought to trial in Dublin. The court offered to pardon him if he implicated Charles I in the Ulster rebellion of 1641, but O'Neill refused to comply. He was executed on 10 March 1653 for his alleged role in the massacres of protestants in 1641; the authorities impaled his remains on the gates of Dundalk, Drogheda, and Dublin. This pamphlet also includes a copy of Sir Phelim O'Neill's Commission appointing his kinsman Colonel Richard Plunket as Lieutenant General in the provinces of Leinster and Ulster, giving as reason "the great want of able commanders concerning the forces in the northern parts of this Kingdom".
93. DODWELL, Henry. De Nupero Schismate Anglicano: Parænesis ad Exteros tam Reformatos quam etiam Pontificios quâ, Jura Episcoporum vetera, eorundemque a Magistratu Seculari Independentia Omnibus asserenda commendantur. Ab Henrico Dodwello, A.M. Dubliniensi.. Londini: Impensis Richardi Smith ad insigne Angeli & Bibliorum extra TempleBar, 1704. pp. [8], 255, [9]. (A4 B-R8 S4 [S4 blank]). Errata on verso of leaf R8. Early signature of Jr. Boswell, Edinburgh dated 1705 on front endpaper. Old vellum. Titled in ink on spine. Wear to spine-ends and fore-edges. Some minor foxing. A very good fresh copy. Rare. €375 ESTC T95461 with no copy in Ireland. Henry Dodwell (1641-1711), a distinguished author and non-juror. His parents fled their lands in Connaught on the outbreak of the Rebellion of 1641 and moved to Dublin where they lived for the next six years. In 1656 he entered Trinity College, where he distinguished himself: "From his first entrance 33
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See items 93 & 98 IN THE SERVICE OF FAITH AND FATHERLAND 94. [DONLEVY, Rev. Andrew] An Teagasg Críosduidhe Do Réir Ceasda agus Freagartha ... The Catechism, or Christian Doctrine by way of Question and Answer, Drawn chiefly from the express Word of God, and other pure Sources. Paris: Printed by James Guerin, 1742. pp. lvi, 518. Irish text with parallel English translation. Recent half calf on marbled boards. Irish titlepage in superior facsimile. Occasional light water stain. A very good copy. Rare. €285 COPAC gives 5 locations. Dr. Andrew Donlevy was born in the barony of Tirerrill, Co. Sligo in 1680. Educated at a hedge-school near his native Ballymote, he secretly escaped to France in 1700 and began his studies at the Irish College there, where he later became Prefect. Donlevy was a noted Irish scholar and assisted Walter Harris the great historian, who said of him: "for many favours I received from him, particularly in his transmitting to me, from time to time, several useful collections out of the King's and other libraries in Paris ... out of gratitude". The author was a man in every way eminently qualified to undertake the Catechism. This rare and valuable work by which he is principally remembered, contains a full treatise on both dogma and morals and was designed for the instruction of the great masses of Irish people who knew no English. In the preface the author explains: "It is the great scarcity of those large Irish Catechisms, published upwards of an hundred years ago, by the laborious and learned Franciscans of Louvain, and the consideration of those great evils which arise from ignorance, partly from want of instructive books, together with a great desire of contributing to the instruction of the poor Irish youth, that gave birth to the following Irish Catechism ... The plainest and most obvious Irish is used throughout and care is taken to explain certain words not used in some districts of the Kingdom by other words set down at the bottom of the page". This edition contains a treatise on The Elements of the Irish Language by Hugh MacCurtain, introduced for the benefit of those who wished to learn and read Irish, which was omitted from the two later Dublin editions of 1822 and 1848. Also included, on p.487-98, is an Abridgment of Christian Doctrine in Irish verse by Bonaventure O'Heoghusa (O'Hussey). 34
De Búrca Ra re Books It is generally accepted that it was widely used by the Irish Brigades in the service of France. Dr. Donlevy's Catechism was the last book of Catholic religious instruction printed on the Continent in Irish characters. This Paris Irish type was first used in O'Begly's Dictionary and Donlevy makes an interesting comment regarding the type: "to such as have no better, nor much time to spare: They will likewise see, that the print is large, and much waste occasioned, through the necessity of placing the questions and answers, of both languages, directly opposite to each other; and that some paper is taken up by quotations from Scripture". While the presses of Louvain, Rome, and Paris were thus contributing to perpetuate our language and instruct our people, the persecuted Catholics of Ireland had not at home a letter of Irish type within their reach, even if they could dare to use it. Dr. Donlevy died in Paris in 1746 and was buried in the old Irish College, the 'College des Lombards'. This illustrious son of County Sligo, exiled for almost half a century, spent most of his life in the service of his faith and fatherland.
95. DONOVAN, Tom. Ed. by. The Knights of Glin. Seven Centuries of Change. Profusely illustrated with colour and black and white plates. Glin: Glin Historical Society, 2009. Quarto. pp. 463, [1]. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €165 This lavishly illustrated chronicle of the FitzGerald family traces their origin from the Norman Invasion to the present day. The Knights of Glin gained control of large tracts of land along the southern bank of the Shannon Estuary, initially as vassals to the Earl of Desmond, and later managed to maintain an ever reducing presence there. This is the remarkable story of a family which evolved in a constantly changing environment from Norman to Gaelic and finally to Anglo-Irish lifestyle, in order to ensure its survival. With contributions by: Thomas J. Byrne, Pádraig de Brún, Tom Donovan, Adrian FitzGerald Knight of Kerry, Desmond FitzGerald Knight of Glin, Olda FitzGerald, R.F. Foster, Kenneth Nicholls, Pádraig Ó Macháin, etc.
96. [DUBLIN CHRONICLE] The Dublin Chronicle. Tuesday, July 6, 1790 (Vol. IV. No. 499). Dublin: Printed by Sleater, 28, Dame-street, 1790. Eight pages quarto. A very good copy. €135 With reports on the French National Assembly, the Parliament of Ireland, action in the Baltic between the Swedes and Russians. There is a list of books offered for sale, recently imported by W. Sleater; Part VIII of Ledwich's Antiquities of Ireland just published by Grueber and M'Allister. There is also notice of plays at the Theatre Royal and linen drapery for sale at Arthur Donnellan's, Werburgh Street.
97. [DUBLIN CHRONICLE] The Dublin Chronicle. Saturday, March 5, 1791 (Vol. IV. No. 603). Dublin: Printed by W. Sleater, 28, Dame-street, 1791. Eight pages quarto. A very good copy. €135 With reports on the Parliament of Ireland and British Parliament, Proclamation by the Lord Lieutenant and various advertisements by Dublin publishers of works just published. Richard White, Bookseller announces the publication of Edmund Burke's Letters, Bruce's Travel and Arnold Zulig. Allen's Map and Printing warehouse offers the greatest variety of elegant prints and maps, framed and glazed. There are also details of auctions throughout the country, death notices, lottery tickets, and scarce wines for sale by Carrothers and Boyd.
98. [DUBLIN LOCKOUT] 1913 Dublin Lockout - Collection of letters and ephemera to Sir Joe McGrath from Archbishop Walsh, William Martin Murphy and others. €875 A collection of letters and correspondence relating to the 1913 Dublin Lockout including a very interesting handwritten letter by Archbishop William Walsh on Archbishop's House headed paper. Dated 24 October 1913 marked 'Confidential', noting that ... "I am terribly overrun with correspondence about help for the poor children (as to which I am organising a special committee and fund) and also with work of various kinds for the settlement of the big strike. As to this letter I think I am in sight of land at last. See two letters of mine in the 4 papers tomorrow - one (for a very special reason in the Irish Times ...". The letter to which Walsh refers was a strongly worded attack on 'Catholic mothers of Dublin' who might attempt to send their children to London for temporary accommodation with trade unionists. Also with another letter from Walsh dated 21 October 1914. A Loyal Tramwaymen's Fund letter dated February 1914 relating to the winding up of the fund and details of accounts, a typescript letter signed by William Martin Murphy dated October 1914. Other correspondence includes a personal letter from an unknown correspondent, dated November 1913 sent from Birkenhead stating "...Is the strike settled yet? I have heard such news about poor Dublin for the last two months. I heard a few days ago however that Larkin's sun has set. I hope it is true. He has done enough harm. And what about ... civil war? ...". 35
De Búrca Ra re Books A four page typescript, corrected in pencil, on the housing of the working classes and the proposed Civic Exhibition and civic survey of Dublin: "The purpose of these Exhibitions is to illustrate methods of ... the housing of the people, public health and prevention of disease, city slums and how to abolish them, lighting and cleansing ... water and milk supply and food inspection ... the Women's National Health Association ... the United Irishwomen ... have already promised their adhesion and active support".
99. [DUBLIN NEWS-LETTER] The Dublin News-Letter. From Tuesday August 17, to Saturday August 21, 1742. (Vol. VI. Number 589). Dublin: Printed by Edward Exshaw, at the Bible over against the Old Exchange, on Cork Hill; And A. Reilly, at the Stationers-Hall on Cork Hill: At which Places Advertisements are taken in, and nowhere else. Broadside, four pages. Paper repair to centre fold. A very good copy. €125 With reports on national and international news: Turkey, Russia, Sweden, Bohemia, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Scotland, England and Dublin. There are several advertisements by Dublin publishers of works just published. There is also proposals for printing by subscription the Peerage of Ireland by John Lodge. There is also a notice of a stolen white Cambrick handkerchief, deserters and on goods imported from England. Hugh Crofton has a notice to the Gentlemen, Clergy and Freeholders of the County of Leitrim on the Vacancy in Parliament by the death of Theophilus Jones.
DUBLIN'S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM 100. DUBLIN'S FIGHTING STORY Dublin's Fighting Story 1916-1921. Told by the men who made it. With a unique pictorial record of the period. Tralee: The Kerryman, n.d. (c.1947). pp. 226. A very good copy in illustrated wrappers. €95 101. DUCHÉ, Jacob. Caspipina's Letters; containing Observations on a Variety of Subjects, Literary, Moral, and Religious. Written by a gentleman who resided some time in Philadelphia. To which is added, the life and character of Wm. Penn, Esq. Original Proprietor of Philadelphia. Two volumes in one. Dublin: Printed by J. Jones, 1792. Contemporary full worn calf. Unobtrusive water stain to first gathering. A good copy. €395 ESTC T126265 with 3 copies in UK and 1 only in Ireland [NLI]. The life of Penn (Volume 2, pp. [73]-154) is by Edmund Rack, who edited the whole work.
KATHERINE TYNAN'S COPY 102. DUFFERIN, Lady. A Selection of the Songs of Lady Dufferin. Set to Music by Herself & Others. Edited by her son the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava. London: John Murray, 1895. pp. vi, [2], 107. Title in red and black. Olive green cloth, with armorial crown in gilt on covers, title in gilt on brown morocco label on spine. Katherine Tynan Hinkson's copy with her signature dated April 1895 on half title. Owner's signature on front endpaper. A fine copy. €75 KATHERINE TYNAN'S COPY 103. DUFFERIN, Lady. Songs, Poems & Verses of Helen, Lady Dufferin (Countess of Gifford). Edited with a Memoir and some Account of the Sheridan family, by her son the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava. With portrait. London: John Murray, 1895. pp. x, 452, [3]. Title in red and black. Olive green cloth, with armorial crown in gilt on covers, title in gilt on brown morocco label on spine. Signed presentation copy from Catherine Ann Brown Hamilton to "Katherine Tynan - Mrs. Hinkson / the works of our Irish Poetess / to Another / from ... who has read and enjoyed / many of your books / November 4th / 1912". Top edge gilt. A fine copy. €125 A much longer selection than previous item.
104. [DUFFY, James] Duffy's Irish Catholic Magazine: A Monthly Review, devoted to National Literature, The Fine Arts, Ecclesiastical History, Antiquities, Biography of Illustrious Irishmen, Military Memoirs, &c. No. 1. February 1847 - No. 23. 36
De Búrca Ra re Books December 1848. Two volumes in one complete. Dublin: James Duffy, 1847/8. pp. [iii], 336, [iii], 306. Contemporary full calf. Spine expertly rebacked. €850 With a feast of articles on civil and ecclesiastical history, biography, religion, papacy, druidism, the Irish Mission, antiquities, the Celtic Society, the Bollandists, and reviews of books, etc.
105. DUFFY, Sir Charles Gavan. Young Ireland. A Fragment of Irish History 1840-1845. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1884. pp. x, 293. Recent green buckram, titled in gilt. A very good copy. €35 106. DUIGENAN, Patrick. L.L.D. A Fair Representation of the Present Political State of Ireland: In a course of Strictures on two Pamphlets, one entitled The Case of Ireland ReConsidered; and the other entitled Considerations on the State of Public Affairs in the year 1799, - Ireland; with Observations on other modern Publications on the Subject of An Incorporating Union of Great Britain and Ireland, particularly on a Pamphlet entitled The Speech of Lord Minto in the House of Peers, April 11, 1799. Dublin: Printed for J. Milliken, Grafton Street, 1800. pp. [iv], 253, [1]. Edition statement at head of title. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. Signature of Samuel Synge on titlepage. Light foxing to titlepage. Very good. Rare. €375 ESTC N18384 locates 6 copies only (3 in Ireland). Not in Gilbert Bradshaw 2600. Patrick Duigenan (1735-1816), Irish politician was a native of County Leitrim. His father intended him for the priesthood but his talents were spotted by a Protestant clergyman who educated him, and eventually made him a tutor in his school. Before long he became a Protestant, entered Trinity College, took a degree, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1767. He opposed the appointment of John Hely Hutchinson as Provost and wrote a series of pamphlets and squibs on that subject collected into a volume entitled Lachrymae Academicae or the present deplorable state of the College. He was an ardent supporter of the Act of Union and opposed all measures of Catholic relief. He did however marry a Catholic lady, Miss Cusack, whom he permitted to keep a Catholic chaplain, and in his will left his vast fortune to his wife's nephew, Sir William Cusack Smith. The present volume is an important work on the political state of Ireland from the 1798 Rebellion to the Act of Union. This edition is headed 'Genuine Edition, corrected by the Author'.
107. DUNNE, Joe. Dunne People and Places. With clan location maps, illustrations and genealogies. Ballinakella: 1996. pp. 119. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. €15 EXCEEDINGLY RARE KERRY ITEM PRESENTATION COPY TO THE EARL OF DUNRAVEN 108. DU NOYER, George Victor. On the Remains of Ancient Stone-Built Fortresses and Habitations Occurring the West of Dingle, County Kerry. With illustrations and map of the ancient City of Fahan near Ventry. S.n. [Journal of the Archaeological Society, March, 1850]. pp. 24, 4 (lithographs). Modern marbled wrappers. Inscribed on the front endpaper from the author to the Earl of Dunraven. Exceedingly rare. €325
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George Victor Du Noyer (1817-1869) painter, geologist and antiquary, was born in Dublin the son of Louis Victor Du Noyer and Margaret Du Bédat, both of Huguenot descent. His father was a French teacher. George was a gifted and extremely prolific artist. Most of his work relates exclusively to Ireland. Throughout his life, he was often commissioned to draw or paint realistic depictions of locations all over Ireland (making many of his works interesting from an Irish historical perspective). Much of this work took place during his time with the Irish Ordnance Survey. George married Frances Adélaide Du Bédat in 1858. They had five children – William Victor, Fanny, Charlotte Eugéne, and twins, Henry Westropp and Joseph Du Bédat. The family lived at Albertville, Sydney Avenue, Blackrock, County. Dublin, for many years. On 3 January 1869, George Victor Du Noyer died of scarlet fever while on Survey in County Antrim, one day after his daughter Fanny died of the same disease. He was buried in Co. Antrim.
109. [DWYER, Philip] A Hand Book to Lisdoonvarna and its Vicinity. With map and woodcuts. Giving a detailed account of its curative waters, and tours to the principal places of interest in the County Clare. Dublin: Hodges Foster, 1876. pp. [iii], 86, 6 (advert). Original illustrated wrappers. Repair to spine. A very good copy. Very Scarce. €150 110. EGAN, Pierce. Pierce Egan's Book of Sports, and Mirror of Life: Embracing the Turf, the Chase, the Ring, and the Stage. Interspersed with Original Memoirs of Sporting Men, etc. Dedicated to George Osbaldeston, Esq. In twenty five parts. Illustrated with woodcut vignettes. London: T.T. and J. Tegg, 1832. First edition. Printed by J. Haddon, Castle Street, Finsbury. pp. iv, 414. Contemporary half calf on cloth boards, title in gilt on spine. Armorial bookplate of C. Beaufort Hunt on front pastedown. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €265 38
De Búrca Ra re Books 111. EGAN, Rev. Patrick K. Ballinasloe. A Historical Sketch. Illustrated. Ballinasloe: Tostal Council, [1953]. pp. 36. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. €15 112. ELLIS, Peter Berresford. Erin's Blood Royal. The Gaelic Noble Dynasties of Ireland. Illustrated. New York: Palgrave, 2002. pp. xvi, 384. Grey paper boards, titled in black. Fine in dust jacket. €65 113. ELLISON, Canon C.C. The Hopeful Traveller. The life and times of Daniel Augustus Beaufort LL.D. 1739-1821. Illustrated. Kilkenny: Boethius, 1987. pp. xvi, 139. Blue paper boards. Fine in dust jacket. €45 114. [ELPHIN GRAMMAR SCHOOL] Rules and Directions for the Regulation of the Grammar School in the Town of Elphin, in the Co. of Roscommon. Established in pursuance of the trusts of Bishop Hodson's will, as settled and approved of by order of the Irish Court of Chancery in Ireland, bearing date the 18th day of February, 1867. Dublin: Printed by Alexander Thom, 1870. pp. 10. A very good copy in printed blue wrappers. Exceedingly rare. €175 No copy located on COPAC. Not in NLI. The Bishop Hodson Grammar School had a long and distinguished history. In 1685 Bishop Hodson established a Diocesan school in Elphin with an endowment of lands in County Cavan "for the education of the poor of the town of Elphin". Amongst the many illustrious students who attended over the years were Sir William Wilde, Oliver Goldsmith and Percy French.
115. EVANS, John. A Sketch of the Denominations of the Christian World : accompanied with a Persuasive to Religious Moderation, to which is prefixed an account of Atheism, Deism, Theophilanthropism, Judaism, Mahometanism and Christianity. By John Evans. The eleventh edition, corrected and enlarged, with a chronological table of the leading events of ecclesiastical history, from the birth of Christ down to the present time. Engraved frontispiece. London: Printed by J. & E. Hodson, Crossstreet, Hatton-Garden, for Crosby & Co. Stationer's-Court, Paternoster-Row and sold by every bookseller and stationer in the United Kingdom, 1808. pp. viii, [xi]xxxvi, 278, [2 (Publisher's List)]. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt direct on spine. From the library of Richard Meade of Ballymartle with his armorial bookplate. Ticket of Edwards & Savage, Booksellers CastleStreet, Cork on front pastedown. Wear to upper cover and corners. Good copy. €185 Frontispiece biographically illustrated.
116. [FALOON, W. Harris] The Marriage Law of Ireland. With an introduction and notes. By W. Harris. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1881. pp. [vi], 250. Brown cloth over bevelled boards. A very good copy. Very rare. €165 COPAC locates 4 copies only. 39
De Búrca Ra re Books 117. [FAMOUS BATTEL] A famous battel fought by the Earle of Corke, the Earle of Ormonde and the Lord Moore against the Rebels in Ireland ... Also a great and bloody Battel betwixt the Earle of Ormond and Tyrone, and the number of men that were slaine. Whereunto is added the treacherous Plots against Dublin ... As also of the great Guard that is daily set to defend London Derry. London: Printed for John Greensmith, 1642. Quarto. pp. [7]. Recent quarter morocco on cloth boards. A very good copy. Very rare. €875 Wing F 364 Sweeney 1874. ESTC R212672 located 2 copies only in Ireland, 2 in UK and 1 in North America. "Wherein is shewed the brave valour of the Lord Moore how he recovered Dublin from the besiege of the rebels, and by his policy undermined the ground, and laid 20 barrels of gun-powder in a vault, and killed 2,000 of the rebels at that time". On the final leaf is an intriguing woodcut showing a farmer and wife engaging in the various processes in ale-making: Sowing the seed; Cutting the ripe barley with a scythe; Threshing; Winnowing; Fermenting; Sampling; The farmer spewing out the brew which was not to his taste; The wife sweeping up after him.
118. FERRIS, William. The Gaelic Commonwealth. Being the Political and Economic Programme for the Irish Progressive Party. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1923. pp. xii, 160, [1]. Printed wrappers. Signed presentation copy from the author. Scarce. €150 The foreword is signed at Ballymullen Barracks, Tralee. The author was a priest in the Diocese of Kerry.
119. [FETHERSTONHAUGH ARCHIVE] A Collection of Ephemera relating to the Fetherstonhaugh Family over a number of Generations. There are many letters relating to the First World War and the death of Second Lieutenant J. L. Fetherstonhaugh of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1914, including a number of letters from him prior to his death. A typed copy valuation of furniture and effects of Rockview, Killucan, the property of Col. J.D. Fetherstonhaugh (died in 1936). Also various other items including 1901 Dublin Peace Commissioner Indenture (with wax seal) for Colonel John David Fetherstonhaugh, photographs, letters, indentures etc. (50 items approx.) €875
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De Búrca Ra re Books The Fetherstonhaughs were an important landholding family in Westmeath during the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Cuthbert Fetherstonhaugh was the first of the name to settle in Ireland in the mid seventeenth century during the Cromwellian wars. Initially the family held lands in barony of Longford, County Galway but they also acquired estates in County Westmeath. John David Fetherstonhaugh (1850-1936), son of Richard Steele Fetherstonhaugh and Rosetta Roche was educated at Rugby School, in Warwickshire. He fought in the North-West Frontier between 1897 and 1898 and gained the rank of Colonel in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Fetherstonhaugh held the office of Deputy Lieutenant, Justice of the Peace and High Sheriff of County Westmeath.
120. FIDDES, Richard. Theologia Speculativa: or, The first Part of a Body of Divinity under that title : Wherein are explain'd the Principles of Natural and Reveal'd Religion. By Richard Fiddes, B.D. Rector of Halsham, and Chaplain to the Right Honourable Robert Earl of Oxford, and Earl Mortimer. Dublin: Printed for John Hyde in Dame-Street, George Grierson at the Two Bibles in Essex-street, and Richard Gunne in Capel-street, 1718. Folio. pp. [10], xx, 330. Contemporary full worn calf. Armorial bookplate of Richard Meade of Ballymartle on front pastedown. Extremely rare. €685 No copy located on COPAC. List of subscribers. Title-page within plain rule-border. Head and tail pieces; initials.
121. FITZGERALD, Edward. The Copie of the Lord Fitz-gerrald's Letter intercepted: Discovering a bloody and most horrible plot to kill burn and spoyl all the Protestants, by the army of the Rebels in Ireland. London: Printed by Jane Coe, 1647. Quarto. pp. 8. Some browning and water stains. Nineteenth century half morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Staining to titlepage. A good copy of an exceedingly rare item. €1,350
Wing F 1071. ESTC R201427 with 5 locations only. The letter was addressed to Edward FitzGerald's cousin Sir Luke FitzGerald. He reports that in December: "Directions were sent to Owen Roe, the 18. of that moneth, to make up all the forces that hee could, and to march downe towards Trim. He can not gather his men yet: for there are two regiments of them in the County of Tipperary, and in the County of Lymricke: and they are now upon their march comming to him". 41
De Búrca Ra re Books Eleanor FitzGerald was the daughter of Sir Luke FitzGerald and Hon. Mary Netterville. She married Theobald Bourke, 3rd Viscount Mayo, son of Miles Bourke, 2nd Viscount Mayo and Honora Bourke, before 1649. As a result of her marriage, Eleanor FitzGerald was styled as Viscountess Mayo in 1649. In 1656 she was allowed a pension of 40s a week. She died in 1693. Sir Luke leased the lands of Blackcastle and Donaghmore in Meath in 1631 from the Earl of Ormonde.
122. FITZGERALD, Rev. P. & M'GREGOR, J.J. The History, Topography, and Antiquities, of the County and City of Limerick; with a Preliminary View of the History and Antiquities of Ireland. With a large fold. map of the County surveyed by James Coffey in 1825, engraved plates and folding chart. Two volumes. Dublin: for G. M'Kern, Limerick by Baldwin, 1826. First edition. pp. (1) vi, 424, (2) x, 623, lxvi, xix (appendix & index), 2 (addenda and errata). Recent quarter calf on marbled boards. A very good set. Rare with Limerick map. €495 The following notice of this Limerick author, Rev. P. Fitzgerald, appeared in MS. in a copy of the History of Limerick which he wrote in conjunction with J. J. McGregor, its writer being as there stated, Caleb Powell of Clanshavoy, Limerick: "Patrick Fitzgerald, the ostensible compiler of this history, which was really arranged by McGregor, a Waterford bookseller of some literary merit, was the son of a tailor in Bruff, County Limerick, and was first employed at the school of Mr. Buckley in that town. Evincing an aptitude for learning, he was gratuitously instructed in that seminary. He subsequently accompanied young gentlemen of the name of Bennett of that neighbourhood to Dublin to read with them their college course. These young men had been educated at Mr. Buckley's, and their mother, considering Patrick Fitzgerald a sober, steady youth, furnished funds for his maintenance, and he read and obtained a Sizarship in Trinity College, Dublin, having abandoned the Roman Catholic religion, in which he had been brought up. He afterwards became private tutor to Mr. Crips and others, got ordained, and married a Miss Stewart of the County Galway, who had respectable connections. The Rev. P. Fitzgerald had an extraordinary aptitude for genealogical traditions, and had accounts more or less accurate of many Limerick families". The titlepage of the above-named History of Limerick shows that he was at that time Vicar of Cahircorney in the Diocese of Emly.
123. FLOWER, Robin. Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the British Museum. Revised and passed through the press by Myles Dillon, Senior Professor, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Volume 3. London: Published by The Trustees of the British Museum, 1953. pp. viii, 281, xxv (plates). Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €65 124. FORSTER, John. The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith. With illustrations after designs by C. Stanfield, D. Maclise, John Leech, Richard Doyle and Robert James Hamerton. Two volumes. London: Ward, n.d. (c.1871). pp. (1) xvii, 440, (2) [xv], 494, 6 (publisher's list). Contemporary half brown morocco gilt. All edges green. A very good set. €85 125. [FOSTER, Sir Michael] A Report of some Proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer: and Gaol Delivery for the Trial of the Rebels in the Year 1746 in the County of Surry, and of other Crown Cases. To which are added Discourses upon a few Branches of the Crown Law. Dublin: Printed for Sarah Cotter, in Skinner-Row, 1763. pp. xi, [1], 412, [16]. Preface signed: M. Foster. With an index. Contemporary full calf, some wear to spine and corners. Lacking most of title piece. Armorial bookplate of Michael Kearney, Fellow T.C.D., with his signature on titlepage. €375 ESTC T147759. See item 11(Auckland). Michael Kearney was ancestor of President Barack Obama.
126. FRASER, James. A Handbook for Travellers in Ireland, Descriptive of its Scenery, Towns, Seats, Antiquities, etc. With all the railways now open, and various statistical tables. Also, an outline of its mineral structure, a brief view of its botany, and information for anglers. Illustrated with numerous maps. Dublin: McGlashan, 1854. Fourth edition. pp. xii, 727 (double column). Publishers green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and within a gilt Celtic decorated border on spine. Spine rebacked preserving original. A very good copy. Scarce. €185 127. [GAILEY] Gailey's Guide to Derry and its suburbs, County of Donegal, comprising a Description of all their points of Interest. With illustrations, maps, and index. Londonderry: William Gailey, 1892. pp. 156, [4], 32 (adverts). Modern brown cloth. Repair to titlepage, original illustrated wrappers bound in. A very good copy. €125 42
De Búrca Ra re Books 128. [GALWAY ASSIZES] Galway Summer Assizes, 1813. A Refutation of an Unfounded Statement, (which appeared in the Freeman's Journal & other Papers) purporting to be a Report of a Trial, in which John Michael Aylward, Esq. was Plaintiff, and Richard Morrison, Esq. was Defendant. London: Printed, 1813. pp. 10. Recent marbled boards with original blue wrappers bound in. In very good condition. Extremely rare. €375 Not in O'Higgins. No copy located in COPAC.
RARE DUBLIN EDITION 129. GAMBADO, Geoffrey [Pseud. of Henry Bunbury] Annals of Horsemanship: Containing accounts of Accidental Experiments, and Experimental Accidents, both successful and unsuccessful: communicated by various correspondents to Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. Author of The Academy for Grown Horsemen: together with most instructive remarks thereon, and answers thereto, by that accomplished genius. And now first published, by the editor of The Academy for Grown Horsemen. Illustrated with cuts [17] by the most eminent artists. Dublin: Printed for William Jones, No. 86, Dame-Street, 1792. pp. xvii, [1], 95, 17 (plates). Modern half calf on marbled boards. Early owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy. €575 ESTC N2559 with 2 locations only in Britain and Ireland.
See items 129 & 131 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR RARE R.I.C. CONSTABLE'S BIOGRAPHY 130. GAUGHAN, J. Anthony. Memoirs of Constable Jeremiah Mee, R.I.C. With illustrations and folding map. Dublin: Anvil Books, 1975. First edition. pp. 397. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Signed by the author on titlepage. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. Very scarce. €295 The Royal Irish Constabulary was an outstanding body of men, and Jeremiah Mee from Glenamaddy, Co. Galway, was perhaps one of the most remarkable of all. The mere fact that this young constable kept a journal singles him out for distinction. It covers in detail that epoch in Irish history from the Rebellion to Free State. His early years saw service in Sligo and North Roscommon. By 1919 he was in 43
De Búrca Ra re Books Listowel and on the 17th of June the following year, the local R.I.C. were ordered to use terror methods against suspected 'Republicans' and to hand over their barracks to the British military. Fourteen constables decided not to obey orders. Mee acted as their spokesman to the commanding officer, saying "From your accent I take it you are an Englishman. Do you forget you are addressing Irishmen?"
DIVERSIONS INTO CORK & KERRY 131. GIBBINGS, Robert & COPPARD, A.E. Rummy. That Noble Game expounded in Prose, Poetry, Diagram and Engraving. With an account of certain diversions into the mountain fastnesses of Cork and Kerry. Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. pp. 50. Green cloth, titled in black. Limited edition 1000 copies. Some minor spotting. A fine copy in very good dust jacket. €275 LIMITED TO 200 COPIES 132. GILBERT, John T. Ed. by. Documents relating to Ireland, 1795-1804: Official Account of Secret Service Money. Governmental Correspondence and Papers. Notice of French Soldiery at Killala. Statements by United Irishmen. Letters on Legislative Union with Great Britain etc. Introduction by Maureen Wall. Illustrated with portraits and facsimiles. Dublin: Printed for the editor by Joseph Dollard, Wellington Quay, 1893. Quarto. pp. xxii, 7 (contents), 250, [1] (corrigenda), [5] (publisher's list). edition limited to 200 copies. Recent full calf. A nice copy. Very scarce. €575 An important work treating a period in our history of great interest and importance. There are detailed accounts and statements of the 'United Irishmen' who sought to establish a republic in Ireland and the 'Sector Service' money paid to informers. Illustrated with a portrait of Lord Edward Fitzgerald and Arthur O'Connor; an engraving of Edward J. Newell and a facsimile of Passport from the Commandant of the French Soldiery at Killala in 1798.
133. GILMARTIN, Rev T. Manual of Church History. Second edition. Two volumes. Dublin: Gill. London: Burns and Oates, 1892/93. pp. (1) xvi, 578, (2) viii, 440. Contemporary half calf on cloth boards, titled in gilt on red morocco labels, badge of Maynooth College in gilt on upper cover. Previous owner's name blanked out. A very good set. Extremely rare. €250 No copy of this edition located on COPAC.
134. GIMLETTE, Thomas. The History of the Huguenot Settlers in Ireland, and Other Literary Remains. Bound with: The French Settlers in Ireland. The Settlement in Waterford. The Feuds of the Bishops of Waterford and Lismore, under the Plantagenets. The Synod of Cashel and The Annals of the Danish Church of St. Olaf's (The Ancient Cathedral of Waterford). Illustrated with two coloured folding maps (France and Ireland), A map of the Seat of the Waldenses, a folding chart of Poitou and other illustrations. S.n. [Dunmore East, 1888?]. Printed for private circulation only. Quarto. pp. [vi], 296, xii, xxii, 28, 4, 8. Modern quarter black morocco over black buckram boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Very rare. €575 COPAC locates 5 copies only. The author was vicar of Dunmore East. Thomas Gimlette's History of the Huguenot Settlers in Ireland and other Literary Remains offers a fascinating insight into the persecution, flight and ultimate survival of one of Europe's minority Protestant faiths. Made infamous by the Edict of Nantes, its Revocation and the subsequent events of the Reformation, the history of Europe's Huguenots preceded these events by some four centuries when small communities of worshipers could be found all over Europe and especially in Provence, southern France, worshipping simply and in their own language, which put them at odds with the established faith. The origin of the appellation 'Huguenot' is unclear, but may have its root in the French work 'Hugon', a cave-dwelling creature. Gimlette's work, pursued out of interest and contact with the descendants of Huguenot settlers in Waterford where he held his ministry, amply describes the history of the Huguenots from the earliest French Reformers, the doctrines of John Calvin until the Edict of Nantes in 1598 and its eventual Revocation nearly a century later. The Huguenot settlement of Ireland began after the Reformation of Henry VIII, but continued apace during the reign of his successor, Elizabeth I. It was during this period that Dublin became the home to many Huguenot merchants, traders and artisans chiefly from Rochelle and Bordeaux. These settled in the area around Christchurch and the High Street and many of the street names in these areas still show their influence. Huguenot settlement in Dublin and other enclaves of Ireland reached its zenith with the 44
De Búrca Ra re Books Victory of William of Orange at the Boyne, when he shortly after inaugurated a number of French Churches, both Calvinistic and Episcopalian. Gimlette pays great attention to the fate of the Huguenot settlers in Dublin and Waterford in the periods immediately following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and details to some extent the roles played by leading Huguenot's in Dublin under the patronage of William III. Amongst these elite were numbered the families of Chevenix, Westenra and Nassau, which would leave their indelible marks on Irish History.
135. GISBORNE, Thomas. A.M. A Familiar Survey of the Christian Religion, and of History, as connected with the Introduction of Christianity, and with its Progress to the Present Time. Intended primarily for the use of young persons of either sex during the course of private or public education. Dublin: Printed for A. & W. Watson, 1830. pp. xv, 386. Contemporary full calf with stamp of the 'Association for Promoting the Christian Religion Incorporated' in gilt on upper cover. Spine rebacked. Repair to titlepage, some staining at end, otherwise good. €150 136. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith. With the Life of the Author. Cooke's edition. Embellished with superb engravings. London: Printed for C. Cooke, No. 17, Paternoster-Row; and sold by all the Booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland, n.d. (c.1795). 12mo. pp. xxiv, 67, 1 (contents). With two titlepages, one engraved plate and engraving throughout text. Contemporary full worn calf, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece on spine. Signed on the front free endpapers by Eliza Luisa Meade, Dunmanway, May 20th 1839. Also, with the signature of James De Courcy dated 1799 on titlepage. Upper board starting, binding worn. A good copy. €175 ESTC locates the Birmingham copy only of this edition. Oliver Goldsmith was born in 1728 in Pallas, County Longford, the son of the Rev. Charles Goldsmith and his wife Ann. When he was two years old the family moved to Lissoy, near Athlone, on the river Shannon, and here Oliver grew up and received his early education. In 1744 Goldsmith went to Trinity College, Dublin. His tutor was Theaker Wilder. Neglecting his studies in theology and law, he fell to the bottom of his class. In 1747, along with four other undergraduates, he was expelled for a riot in which they attempted to storm the Marshalsea Prison. He graduated in 1749, but without the discipline or distinction that might have gained him entry to a profession in the church or the law; his education seemed to have given him mainly a taste for fine clothes, playing cards, singing Irish airs and playing the flute. Around this time his father died and Oliver had to make a living. After a two-years' interlude of relaxation, he applied for ordination as a Minister and was turned down, tried to emigrate to America but never got beyond Cork, and finally went off in 1752 to Edinburgh to study medicine. After eighteen months there and a year at Leyden University, he left without a medical degree and set out on a walking tour of Flanders, France, Switzerland and Northern Italy, living by his wits (busking with his flute). The record for these two years, 1754-56, is confused, since Goldmsith's own narrative is not trustworthy. The one certain fact is that he never again set foot in Ireland. After that period of wandering, Goldsmith settled in London where he became a famous poet, dramatist, novelist and occasional writer. He was a constant companion of Dr. Samuel Johnson, the great lexicographer and the foremost literary personality of the age. Johnson greatly admired Goldsmith's most famous poems, The Deserted Village and The Traveller. He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, the source of the phrase "goody two-shoes". In the last nine years of a relatively short life, Oliver Goldsmith created a memorable work in each of three genres: The Deserted Village, Lissoy was, at least in part, the hamlet described in this extensive poem; The Vicar of Wakefield, a novel; and She Stoops to Conquer, a comic play that continues to be produced on the stage. 45
De Búrca Ra re Books 137. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. She Stoops to Conquer, or The Mistakes of a Night. Illustrated and decorated in colour by T.M. Cleland. Introduction by Louis Kronenberg. Collector's Edition. The Easton Press: 1978. pp. xix. 121. Full light blue morocco with gilt tooling. Copper water-silk endpapers, gold silk marker. All edges gilt. Fine copy. €125 IN A FINE BINDING 138. GOUGAUD, Dom Louis. Christianity in Celtic Lands. A History of the Churches of the Celts, their origin, their development, influence, and mutual relations. Translated from the author's MS. by Maud Joynt. With maps. London: Sheed & Ward, 1932. pp. lxii, 458. Full green morocco gilt with title pressed on vellum on upper cover. Marbled endpapers, green and gold endbands. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. €265 The contents includes: The Heathen Celts in the British Isles; Rise of Christianity in the Insular Countries; The Expansion of Christianity - Monasticism; The Britons in Armorica; The Irish Abroad; Controversies in Matters of Discipline; The Clergy and Ecclesiastical Institutions; Intellectual Culture and Theological Doctrines; Liturgy and Private Devotion; Christian Arts; The Gradual Decline of Celtic Particularism. There are three maps: Ireland; Monasteries and other places of continental Europe known to have been frequented by Irish monks and scholars; Scotland, England, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany (folding).
139. GRAVES, Richard. Lectures on the Four Last Books of the Pentateuch; designed to show the Divine Origin of the Jewish Religion, chiefly from Internal Evidence ... delivered in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, at the Lecture established by the Provost and Senior fellows, under the will of Mrs. Anne Donnellan. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1865. Tenth edition. pp. xxi, [1], 509. Contemporary full polished calf, covers framed by a single gilt fillet enclosing in the centre the badge of the Royal Free Grammar School, Stratford-upon-Avon. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands; title in gilt on navy morocco letterpiece on the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design; fore-edges hatched in gilt; combmarbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Signature of H.D. Conner [Manch] 'Divinity prize / July 1875', along with the Head Master on front free endpaper. A very good copy. Very rare. €275 COPAC locates 2 copies only.
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De BĂşrca Ra re Books WATERFORD STROKER 140. [GREATRAKES, Valentine] A Brief Account of Mr. Valentine Greatrak's, and Divers of the Strange Cures. By him lately performed. Written by himself in a Letter Addressed to the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. Whereunto are annexed the Testimonials of several Eminent and Worthy Persons of the chief Matters of Faith therein Related. Engraved portrait frontispiece. London: Printed for F. Starkey, at the Mitre in Fleet-street, between the Middle Temple-Gate and Temple-Bar, 1666. pp. 96. Modern half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. With the Macclesfield North Library armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Frontispiece with paper repair, slight offsetting to titlepage. A very good copy. â‚Ź2,650
Sweeney 352 lists the second edition published in Dublin in 1668. The 1st and only Wing printing - G 1791. ESTC R6820. Valentine Greatrakes, the "Touch Doctor", was born at Affane, County Waterford, on the 14th February 1628. His mother was Mary, third daughter of Sir Edward Harris, Knight, Chief Justice of Munster. He was educated, first at the free school of Lismore till he was about thirteen, and was then 47
De Búrca Ra re Books intending to continue his studies at Dublin, when the death of his father and the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1641 led his mother to bring him to England. Here he remained about six years, for a time in the house of his mother's brother, Edmund Harris. He returned to Ireland about 1647, and for a year led a retired and contemplative life at the castle of Cappoquin; but when Cromwell opened his campaign in Ireland he joined the parliamentary forces, and served in the regiment of Colonel Robert Phaire, the regicide, under Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill, afterwards first Earl of Orrery. He married, and when the army was disbanded in 1656 became a County Magistrate, Registrar for Transportations, and Clerk of the Peace for County Cork, through the influence of Phaire, then Governor of Cork. At the Restoration in 1660 Greatrakes was deprived of his offices, and betook himself to a life of contemplation, giving 'himself up wholly to the study of goodness and sincere mortification' (Dr. Henry More). In 1662 the idea seized him that he had the power of curing the 'King's Evil' (or scrofula). He kept the matter a secret for some time, but at last communicated it to his wife, who 'conceived it to be a strange imagination,' and jokingly told him that he had an opportunity of testing his power at once on a boy in the neighbourhood, William Maher or Meagher of Salterbridge in the parish of Lismore. Greatrakes laid his hands on the affected parts with prayer, and within a month the boy was healed. Several similar cases of scrofula were partially or entirely cured in the same way, and Greatrakes was encouraged to undertake the treatment of ague and other diseases with the like success. The reports of these extraordinary cures brought him a vast number of patients during the next three years and his stables, barns, and outhouses were at times full of invalids whom his powers attracted from various parts of Ireland and also from England. He set apart three days each week for the exercise of his cure. The Dean and Bishop of Lismore remonstrated with him in vain for practising medicine without a license. At the desire of Charles II he was invited to London, where he became a wonder to many and a subject of ridicule to others. Some of his notable cures were certified by the Royal Society, and he was lionised and entertained in many parts of England. A writer describes him as a man of good life and benevolent principles, "seeming by his faith and by his charitableness to include some grains of the golden age, and to be a relic of those times when piety and miracles were sincere … All he did was only to stroke the patients with his hands, by which all old pains, gout, rheumatism, and convulsions, were removed from part to part to the extremities of the body, after which they entirely ceased, which caused him to be called the stroker - of which he had the testimonials of the most curious men in the nation, both physicians and divines". Eventually his powers fell into disrepute. He was living in 1681; the date of his death is not mentioned. Some of his descendants were stated to be still living in the County of Waterford in 1833. A response to David Lloyd's Wonders no miracles. Some but not all copies contain the famous illustration of Greatrakes in the act of stroking the patient.
SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM BUNREE TO BARNACOLLEEN 141. GREER, Rev. James. The Windings of the Moy with Skreen and Tireragh. Illustrated. Dublin: Thom, c. 1923. pp. xi, 232. Publisher's green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and rebacked spine. Signed presentation copy from the author. A good copy. Scarce. €275 A feast of articles chiefly on topography without as the author states: "any thought of publication, just to pass away time, at a period of life when the writer suffered much from insomnia". The underlying theme of the articles is the scenic beauty and grandeur of mountain, river, lake and sea. They include notices of: Moyne Abbey; Killala - The Mouth of the Moy; The Wreck of the Arethusa; Enniscrone now and then; Antiquities of Kilglass Enniscrone; From Bunree to Barnacolleen; Pullaheenyeaskey; Skreen; Dromore West; The Great Nangle of Skreen; Ballina; Ard na Ree; Foxford; The Grave of Michael Davitt, Straide; Meelick Round Tower; Swinford; Banada; Cnoc na Shea, etc.
142. [GROSE, Daniel] Daniel Grose (c.1766-1838). The Antiquities of Ireland. A Supplement to Francis Grose. Edited and introduced by Roger Stalley. With colour illustrations. Dublin: Irish Architectural Archive, 1991. First edition. Quarto. pp. xxiv, 214. Quarter black morocco on grey cloth boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy. €45 143. GWYNN, Denis. Young Ireland and 1848. Cork: University Press, 1949. pp. 325. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in scarce dust jacket. €65 The attempted rising of July, 1848, was so quickly quelled that its vital importance in modern Irish history has never been recognised. Its leaders, William Smith O'Brien, Michael Doheny, Thomas Francis Meagher and others were sentenced for high treason to be hanged, drawn and quartered. They 48
De Búrca Ra re Books were subsequently reprieved and given 'free passage' to Van Diemen's Land. Professor Gwynn after painstaking research presents the whole story in a vivid narrative.
SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR 144. HALL, S. C. Mrs. The Forlorn Hope. A Story of Old Chelsea. Bound in at end an eight page gathering of 'Poems' by S.C. Hall. London: Privately Printed, [1846]. Small quarto. First edition. pp. 28, 8. Gilt decorated paper boards. Signed presentation copy from the author to Philip Stoddart, dated September the 7th 1845, on headed notepaper of 'The Rosery, Old Brompton', (bound in at front). Repair to spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €1,350 COPAC locates 5 copies only. In aid of the fund for building the hospital for consumption and diseases of the chest, in Old Brompton. With a chromolithographic titlepage, printed in colours by M. and N. Hanhart.
SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO ROBERT WALSH - A CHAMPION OF ANTI-SLAVERY 145. HALL, Mrs. S.C. Midsummer Eve : A Fairy Tale of Love. Illustrated. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848. Octavo format in fours. pp. [8], 270, [12] leaves of plates. Blind-stamped red cloth, title "Midsummer eve" within gilt vignette of flowers and fairies on upper cover. Lower cover has sub-title "A fairy tale of love" within similar frame. Title "Midsummer eve", author and gold-blocked decoration on spine. All edges gilt. Signed presentation copy from the author to Rev. Robert Walsh. A very good copy. €675 49
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See items 144 & 148 COPAC locates 5 copies only. Half-title with illustrations signed by "KM". With wood-engraved title page within plain border. Printer's device on titlepage verso. Introduction signed "A.M.H. The Rosery, Old Brompton". Author notes book first appeared "in detached parts, in The Art-Union Journal. Illustrators include: D. Maclise, C. Stanfield, T. Creswick, E.M. Ward, A. Elmore, W.E. Frost, J. Noel Paton, Frederick Goodall, Thomas Landseer, E.H. Wehnert, R. Huskisson, F.W. Topham, Kenny Meadows, F.W. Fairholt, J. Franklin, J.H. Weir, F.W. Hulme and J. Lecurieux. The Rev. Robert Walsh, M.D., LL.D, (1772-1852) clergyman, historian, writer and physician, was born in Waterford, where many of his ancestors had been chief magistrates. He entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1789, where he was a friend of Robert Emmet and Thomas Moore. He was elected scholar in 1794, and graduated B.A. in 1796. Walsh was ordained a clergyman of the Church of Ireland and was curate of Finglas, in County Dublin. Here he married Anne, daughter of John Bayly, of Tolka. He published in 1818, in conjunction with John Warburton and the Rev. James Whitelaw (both deceased by then), a History of the City of Dublin in two volumes. He became chaplain to the British Embassy in St. Petersburg and then in Constantinople in 1820. Appointed chaplain to the British Embassy in Rio de Janeiro in 1828, he spent 200 days in Brazil, travelling through the country to investigate the conditions of the slaves, and wrote Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829, as part of an effort to abolish the Slave Trade. He urged the setting up of courts wherever there was a British consul, with the right to arrest and try slavers, even if they 50
De Búrca Ra re Books were not transporting slaves - the owner, master and crew would then be liable to severe punishment as pirates. In this way, he hoped, the trade would no longer be permitted, and "the whole of this ransacked and harassed coast will then be protected and every slaver on any part of it will be seized and tried as a pirate". As it transpired, the foreign slave trade was not abolished until 1850, and it took another thirty years to emancipate the slaves. Walsh left Brazil in May 1829. After two weeks on the sea the captain of his ship spotted a slave ship which he chased for thirty hours, firing shots across its bow which forced it to heave to. After boarding the ship Walsh saw at first hand the terrible conditions in which the slaves were transported. His ship arrived in Portsmouth on 30 June. Walsh acquired a medical degree, and practised for some time as a physician. He returned to Ireland in 1835, where he obtained the living of Kilbride, Co. Wicklow, and exchanged it for that of his earlier residence at Finglas in 1839, and died there in 1852. Several generations of his family were interested in archaeology, and Robert Walsh was no exception. He made the discovery of a celebrated ancient cross called the Cross of Nethercross in Finglas. There was a tradition in the village that it had been buried in a certain place, still known to an old man who had heard it from his father. It had been interred to protect it from the fanatical zeal of Cromwell's soldiers. Robert Walsh had an excavation made at the spot indicated, and the cross was disinterred and set up in Finglas churchyard. Robert Walsh's son, John Edward, became Attorney-General for Ireland and M.P. for Dublin University. He published in 1847 the popular Ireland Sixty Years Ago, which contained much information procured from his father, from a series of articles written by Robert for the Dublin University Magazine. Robert Walsh's brother, Edmond (died 1832) was also a writer who had a brilliant career as an army surgeon all over the world, before settling in Dublin.
146. HALL, Mrs. S.C. Ireland: Dublin; Wicklow; Waterford; Cork; Limerick; Killarney; etc. etc. The South: a lecture for the magic lantern, and a guide to the tourist. The letterpress descriptions by S.C. Hall. London: Poulton & Son, [1854]. pp. 48. Blue blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Recased. A fine copy. Extremely rare. €265 COPAC locates 1 copy only.
147. HALL, Mr. & Mrs. S.C. A Week at Killarney. With map and numerous plates. London: Jeremiah How, 1843. pp. 208. Original green cloth, title in gilt within a gilt garland of shamrocks on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Fading to covers and some wear to spine. Ticket of Cowing, Bookseller and Printer, Barnet, on front pastedown. Signature of M. O'Donovan on front flyleaf. A good copy. €135
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De Búrca Ra re Books 148. HALL, Anna Marie. Boons and Blessings. Stories and Sketches to illustrate the Advantages of Temperance. Illustrated by engravings from designs by eminent artists. London: National Temperance Publication, n.d. (1875). pp. x, 282. Gilt decorated olive-green cloth. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €575 COPAC locates 1 copy only of this edition. Not listed on OCLC.
149. [HANCOX, Alan] Poems for Alan Hancox. Illustrated. Risbury: Printed and published by The Whittington Press. 1993. Quarto. pp. [42]. Edition limited to 350 numbered copies. Quarter linen on decorated boards, title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. €65 With contributions by: Melvyn Bragg, D.J Enright, U.A. Fanthorpe, Michael Foot, Duncan Forbs, Ted Hughes, P.J. Kavanagh, Laure Lee and others. Includes 'A Sofa in the Forties' by Seamus Heaney.
150. HARDIMAN, James. Irish Minstrelsy, or Bardic Remains of Ireland; with English poetical translations. Two volumes. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1971. pp. (1) lxxx, 376, (2) 435. Green buckram, title in gilt on spine. A fine set. €95 An anthology of Irish bardic poems, together with a selection of Turlough Carolan's poetry. The poems are presented in the original Irish, with English translations, and descriptive notes.
151. HARDY, Philip Dixon. The New Picture of Dublin or Stranger's Guide to the Irish Metropolis. Containing a description of every public and private building worthy of notice, and a correct account of the various Commercial, Benevolent, and Religious Institutions. To which is added, a brief notice of the various pleasure tours round the Metropolis. With eleven beautiful engravings and map of the city in superior facsimile. Dublin: William Curry, 1835. pp. [2] [xiv], 352, 16 (advertisement). Original publisher's cloth, title on new printed label on rebacked spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €135
The engraved half-title reads The New Picture of Dublin and is undated. The title reads The Picture of Dublin is dated 1853.
152. HAROLDO, P. Francisco. Vita Fratris Lucae Waddingi. Editio Tertia Emendatior. Cura Patrum Provinciae Hiberniae. With portrait frontispiece of Luke Wadding. Florence: Ad Claras Aquas, 1931. Folio. pp. 179. Half brown morocco on brown cloth boards, title in gilt on spine. Some wear to spine ends, otherwise a very good copy. €75 153. HARRINGTON, T. The Maamtrasna Massacre, Impeachment of the Trials. Bound with: Appendix containing Report of Trials and Correspondence between Most Rev. Dr. M'Evilly and the Lord Lieutenant. Dublin: Nation Office, 90 Middle Abbey Street, 1885. pp. ix, 48, 46 (Appendix). Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Very rare. €375 52
De Búrca Ra re Books COPAC locates 7 copies only. Timothy Charles Harrington (1851-1910), a native of Castletownbere, County Cork, journalist, barrister, nationalist politician and M.P. for Kerry (1880), Westmeath (1883) and Dublin Harbour (from 1885 until his death). He founded The Kerry Sentinel in 1877, using it to further Land League agitation in Kerry. He also owned the United Ireland newspaper and was a member of a group of prominent nationalist politicians from the Bantry vicinity known as the 'Pope's Brass Band'. He wrote this work on the 'Maamtrasna Massacre' highlighting the plight of the wrongfully accused in the horrific murder of five members of the family of John Joyce, Maamtrasna, County Mayo (now in County Galway). Harrington was secretary and chief organiser of the Irish National League, a supporter of Charles Stewart Parnell and was largely responsible for devising the agrarian Plan of Campaign in 1886. He was on a fund-raising tour of the United States on behalf of the Plan with John Dillon when the split occurred in the Parnellite party. He supported his leader from America and continued his allegiance on his return. Harrington was strongly identified with the Land Conference negotiations which led to the Wyndham Irish Land (Purchase) Act (1903). He served as Lord Mayor of Dublin three times from 1901-1904. He is celebrated by a statue erected in 2001 in the town of Castletownbere.
154. HATCHELL, George. Abstract of the Deeds inrolled in Chancery, pursuant to the Act 4º & 5º William IV., cap. 92 entitled: An Act for the Abolition of Fines and Recoveries, and for the Substitution of more simple modes of Assurance. 1834-1839. Compiled from the original Inrolements in the Rolls Office. Dublin: Printed by Alexander Thom for H. M. Stationery Office, 1840. Quarto. pp. 296. Contemporary half calf on cloth boards, title in gilt on spine. Occasional light foxing. All edges marbled. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €575 COPAC locates the BL copy only. There are 2 copies in the NLI (one defective).
155. HEAD, Sir Francis B. A Fortnight in Ireland. With folding map. London: Murray, 1852. First edition. pp. [vii], 400, 16 (publisher's list). Publisher's green cloth. A very good copy. €175 Sir Francis Bond Head (1793-1875), 1st Baronet KCH PC, colonial governor and author, was the son of James Roper Mendes Head and Frances Anne Burgess. On the paternal line he was descended from Spanish Jew Fernando Mendes, who was accompanied by Catherine of Braganza in 1662. His grandfather Moses Mendes married Anna Gabriella Head and took on the Head name following the death of his wife's father. He was known as "Galloping Head", was Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada during the rebellion of 1837. Head was a soldier in the British Army from 1811 to 1825, and afterwards attempted to set up a mining company in Argentina. He married Lady Bond Head (the former Julia Valenza Somerville) in 1816, and they had four children. Head boasts that the "Object of my little tour in Ireland was to listen to opinions rather than impart them". His journey was predicated by a host of opinions, most notable among them the assumption that the real character of the country could be captured in a 'little' tour of a week's duration. With chapters on: Dublin, National Education, The Royal Irish Constabulary, College of Maynooth, Tour of Mayo, Connemara, Degraded condition of the People, Tactics of the Irish Priesthood, etc.
156. HEANEY, Seamus. Death of a Naturalist. London: Faber and Faber, 1966. First edition. pp. 57. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Ex library with 'Withdrawn from Stock' stamp on verso of titlepage. Some scribbling. Lacking front free endpaper. A good copy in original dust jacket with two tears. Rare first edition. €265 Brandes and Durkan A2. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), Nobel Laureate, poet, essayist and playwright, born in County Derry and brought up on a small farm between Toomebridge and Castledawson. After graduation from Queen's University, Belfast he taught for a year at St. Thomas's Intermediate School in that city, where Michael MacLaverty, the headmaster, encouraged his writing; he then became a lecturer at St. Joseph's Teacher Training College. While there he participated in the poetry group organised by Philip Hobsbaum at QUB, where he was appointed to the English Department in 1966. Death of a Naturalist is Heaney's first collection of poems and are rooted in childhood experiences of life in his native County Derry. He reflects upon death, the recapture of a lost time, and the freedom and joy of artistic creativity.
157. HEANEY, Seamus. Door into the Dark. London: Faber and Faber, 1969. First edition. pp. 56. Black linen, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A fine copy in illustrated wrappers. €545 Brandes and Durkan A5. 53
De Búrca Ra re Books "Heaney still has the gift of finding a new and consummate phrase to evoke physical qualities, and when these take on a symbolic resonance the result is superb ... the collection as a whole is a splendid achievement, confirming Heaney's reputation as one of the best of the younger poets on either side of the Irish sea" Richard Kell in The Guardian.
SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 158. HEANEY, Seamus. Sweeney Astray. A Version from the Irish by Seamus Heaney. Derry: A Field Day Publication, 1983. First edition. Greyish-white rexine boards, drawing by Colin Middleton in black on upper cover, title in black on spine. Signed and dated by Seamus Heaney. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €475 Brandes and Durkan A34.
A splendid version from the Irish by this acclaimed Nobel winning poet with superb two colour typography. This beautiful production from Field Day is a much sought after book, and especially rare when signed.
LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 159. HEANEY, Seamus. The Cure at Troy. A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Derry: Field Day, 1990. First edition. pp. [x], 83. Blue-grey boards, title in gilt on spine. With loose (bookmark) erratum slip. Edition limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed by Seamus Heaney. A fine copy in illustrated dust jacket, from a painting by Basil Blackshaw. €625 Brandes and Durkan A49. A modern interpretation with echoes of current events in Ireland, though textually close to the classical Greek.
LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 160. HEANEY, Seamus. Opened Ground. Poems 1966-1966. London: Faber, 1998. pp. xiii, 478. First edition. Quarter black linen on tan paper boards, title on printed label on spine. Limited to 300 numbered copies, signed by Seamus Heaney. A fine copy in fine slipcase. €950 Brandes & Durkan A 70c. This work concludes with Seamus Heaney's acceptance speech for the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to him, in the words of the Swedish Academy of Letters, for his "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth".
FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 161. HEANEY, Seamus. Beowulf. Translated by Seamus Heaney. London: Faber and Faber, 1999. First edition. pp. xxx, 106. Dark blue paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Signed by Seamus Heaney on titlepage. A fine copy in dust jacket. €475 Brandes and Durkan A72. The great relic of English literature is the epic Beowulf. The poem is in West Saxon but was originally composed in a northern or midland dialect. There are many theories as to its origins and composition. It probably developed into a saga in Northumbria in the 7th century and in the 8th it attained its present unity with the central heroic figure of Beowulf. Most of the characters in the events in Beowulf are mentioned in history or folklore, chiefly in the Scandinavian legends. Beowulf himself is reputedly an historical figure, warrior of one of the Kings of Denmark (like our own Fionn and the Fianna who were said to be historical but about whom a band of legends grew up). The main events in the poem occurred in the 6th century. It is a mixture of folk tale, hero legend and the poet's imagination of a noble character. This new translation by Seamus Heaney was met with great critical acclaim when first published in 1999. 54
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LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 162. HEANEY, Seamus. Electric Light. London: Faber and Faber, 2001. First edition. pp. [x], 81. Quarter black linen on cream paper boards, title on printed paper label on spine. Limited to 300 copies, numbered and signed by Seamus Heaney. A fine copy in slipcase. €750 Brandes and Durkan A75c.
LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 163. HEANEY, Seamus. The Burial at Thebes. Sophocles' 'Antigone'. London: Faber and Faber, 2004. First edition. pp. [vii], 56. Quarter maroon linen on gold paper boards, title in gilt on black ground on spine. Edition limited to 250 numbered copies for sale. Signed by Seamus Heaney. A fine copy in slipcase. €750 Heaney's translation of Antigone was first performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004.
SIGNED FIRST EDITION 164. HEANEY, Seamus. The Burial at Thebes. Sophocles' 'Antigone'. London: Faber and Faber, 2004. First edition. pp. [vii], 56. Black paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Signed by Seamus Heaney on titlepage. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €385 SIGNED FIRST EDITION 165. HEANEY, Seamus. District and Circle. London: Faber and Faber, 2006. pp. [ix], 113. First edition. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Signed by Seamus Heaney on titlepage. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €475 LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 166. HEANEY, Seamus. Spelling It Out. Loughcrew: The Gallery Press, 2009. First Edition. pp. [20]. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Edition limited to 300 copies for sale. Signed by Seamus Heaney. A fine copy. €375 Essay in honour of Brian Friel on his eightieth birthday. Drawing by Basil Blackshaw.
LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 167. [HEANEY Seamus] The Testament of Cresseid. A retelling of Robert Henryson's poem, with images by Hughie O'Donoghue. London: Enitharmon Editions. 2004. Folio. First edition. Green cloth, colour illustration pasted on upper cover, title on printed label on spine. Edition limited edition of 350 numbered copies, signed by Seamus Heaney and Hughie O'Donoghue. A fine copy in glassine wrapper. €575 Designed and printed on Arches Vélin by Sebastian Carter of the Rampant Lions Press. With six large tipped-in colour illustrations. 55
De Búrca Ra re Books SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER 168. HEANEY, Seamus The Last Walk. Illustrated by Martin Gale. Oldcastle: Gallery Press, 2013. First edition, first printing. Green linen, title blind-stamped on upper cover. One of 575 numbered copies, of which 500 are for sale. Signed by the publisher Peter Fallon. A fine copy in fine acetate dust jacket. €235
Published posthumously, the book is a translation by Seamus Heaney of Giovanni Pascoli's L'ultima passeggiata published in 1891. Heaney's last work, a most attractive publication with coloured plates by Martin Gale.
169. HEANEY, Seamus. Et al. Responses. The National Book League and the Poetry Society, 1971. Quarto. pp. 43, [1]. Printed red wrappers. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies. Small nick to lower margin. A fine copy. €35 Contains 'Servant Boy' by Seamus Heaney [Pearson B10], also poems by Jon Silkin, Earle Birney, William Plomer, et al.
170. HENNESSY, Sir John Pope. Sir Walter Raleigh in Ireland. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., 1883. pp. xii, 264. Original decorated cloth over bevelled boards. Ex lib. with bookplate and stamps. Engraved title in red and black. A very good copy. €85 Sir Walter Raleigh was an English explorer, soldier and writer who was imprisoned in the Tower of London and eventually put to death after being accused of treason by James I. Before serving in the Huguenot army in France he studied at Oxford, and became a favourite of Queen Elizabeth after serving in her army in Ireland. He was knighted in 1585, and within two years became captain of the queen's guard. Raleigh's connexion with Ireland commenced in 1580, as a captain in the Munster wars. A month after landing he was joined in commission with Sir Warham St. Leger, for the trial of Sir James FitzGerald, brother of the Earl of Desmond. He took a prominent part in the capture and massacre of the Spanish invading force at Smerwick in November 1580. His services upon several occasions in the Desmond war are specially commended in despatches, and in the forfeitures which followed its conclusion he was allotted about 12,000 acres in the Counties of Cork, Waterford, and Tipperary.
171. HENNESSY, William M. Ed. by. Chronicum Scotorum. A Chronicle of Irish Affairs, from the earliest times to A.D. 1135. With a supplement containing the events from 1141 to 1150. One coloured plate. London: Longmans, 1866. pp. lvii, 419, 16. Original quarter pebbled cloth on black paper boards, title in gilt on spine. From York Public Library with bookplate and blind stamp. Minor wear to corners, otherwise a fine copy. €375 56
De Búrca Ra re Books Written by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (1585-1666) of that celebrated learned family who were historians and antiquarians of Hy Fiachrach in north Connaught. Duald was educated at Redwood by the MacEgans and was a contemporary of Roderic O'Flaherty and Dr. John Lynch. He was employed by Ware who was indebted to him for much of the information which enabled him [Ware] to acquire his place as the distinguished Irish scholar of the seventeenth century. For his services Ware never credited this celebrated Irish antiquary who, for his massive contribution to our history, genealogy and literature surely deserves a place in the ranks of our greatest Celtic scholars. [See The Great Book of Irish Genealogies in our Edmund Burke Publisher section at end].
LIMITED EDITION OF LAST WORK PUBLISHED BY I.U.P 172. HERITY, Michael. Irish Passage Graves. Neolithic Tomb-Builders in Ireland and Britain 2500 B.C. With maps and illustrations. Dublin: I.U.P. 1974. Folio. pp. x, 308. Quarter morocco on marbled boards. Special edition limited to 100 copies. Signed and numbered by Michael Herity on limitation page. Top edge green. A fine copy. Rare. €125 There are over 300 passage graves in Ireland and their remains can still be seen in such places as the top of Loughcrew, in County Meath, on Knocknarea in Sligo, in the Dublin mountains and in counties Down, Tyrone and Antrim. The ambitious ideals of the builders of these tombs, apparent in the magnificence of their architecture and their dramatic sitting, are also revealed in the ornamentation on the walls of the tombs. The sophistication of the art is matched by the grave-furniture which is found with the cremated remains of the dead in the tombs. Dr. Herity's original and incisive survey gives a complete description of the Irish passage graves.
173. [HOBSON, Bulmer] The New Querist, containing Several Queries, Proposed to the Consideration of the Public. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1933. pp. 34. Illustrated stitched wrappers. Very good. Scarce. €35 "Whether Freedom be of any manner of use to a people if it be not used to yield them a fuller measure of life, than did their past subjection ?". Written after the model of Berkeley's famous pamphlet The Querist, of which the present title-page is an amusing copy.
174. HOEY, John Cashel. Ed. by. Speeches at the Bar and in the Senate by the Right Hon. Wm. Conyngham, Lord Plunket, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland. Edited with a Memoir and Historical Notices, by John Cashel Hoey. Dublin: James Duffy, 1862. pp. xxiv, 480. Olive green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Owner's stamp on front endpaper. A fine copy. €75 175. HOGAN, James J. Badges : Medals : Insignia. Óglaigh na hEireann (Irish Defence Forces). Dublin: Military Archives, Rathmines, 1987. Medium quarto. pp. 80. Pictorial stiff wrappers. A fine copy. €50 The first serious attempt to document the history of the badges, medals and insignia of the Irish Defence Forces with some details of the uniforms, badges and insignia of the Irish Nationalist military organizations of the early twentieth century. Illustrated with upwards of 540 black and white line drawings and photographs.
176. HOLBERG, Baron Ludvig. An Introduction to Universal History: Translated from the Latin of Baron Holberg. With notes historical, chronological, and critical. By Gregory Sharpe, L.L.D. fellow of the Royal Society, and of the Society of Antiquarians. To which is added, the History of Ireland; also an account of the author. The third edition. Dublin: Printed by Peter Hoey, at the Mercury, (No. 33) Upper Ormond-Quay, 1795. 12mo. pp. xxii, 388, [10]. Recent full calf. Extremely rare. €575 ESTC T205043 locates the NLI copy only. COPAC locates the York copy.
"AFTER OUR ARRIVAL THE DENUNCIATION FROM THE ALTAR BEGAN" 177. HOUSTOUN, Mrs. [Matilda Charlotte] Twenty Years in The Wild West; or, Life in Connaught. London: Murray, 1879. pp. xii, 288, 32. Illustrated cloth. Minor wear to corners. A very good copy. Rare. €875 An Englishwoman's recollections of her twenty-two years of residence at Delphi, near Westport, Co. Mayo. An interesting work, instructive and exciting. She denounces absenteeism, the priests, and the over-population as the causes of the wretchedness, disaffection and discontent of the peasantry. In her preface the author states: "The writer of the following chapters is induced to think that the experiences of an English woman living for twenty years in one of the wildest parts of the West of 57
De Búrca Ra re Books Ireland, isolated and apart from any society, and surrounded solely by the peasantry, may not be without value and interest. The determination to settle on a large un-reclaimed estate, amidst bogs and moors scarcely reached by roads, was associated with a wish, too romantic and sanguine as it turned out, to benefit the inhabitants of a district where resident landlords are scarce. How these intentions were frustrated by the calamities of Spiritual tyranny and a Reign of terror is explained in the following pages, the perusal of which may possibly also be found to throw light on the relations between Landlord and Tenant, Priest and People". Includes publisher's catalogue at end.
178. HURLEY, Rev. T. Canon. St. Patrick and the Parish of Kilkeevan (Co. Roscommon). Volume 1, all published. Illustrated. Dublin: Dollard, 1943. pp. xxvii, 618. Black cloth, titled in gilt, with gilt motif of St. Patrick on both covers. Signed presentation copy from the author to Philip Waldron, Ballyhaunis. A very good copy. Scarce. €225 179. HYDE, Douglas. Songs Ascribed to Raftery (Abhráin atá Leagtha ar an Reachtúire). Being the Fifth Chapter of the Songs of Connacht. Introduction by Dominic Daly. Shannon: I.U.P., 1973. pp. xvii, 372, xvi (notes). Buckram, title in gilt. Fine in frayed dust jacket. Scarce. €85 Dedicated by Hyde to Lady Gregory. She was proud of her fine library at Coole, and treasured her presentation copy from Hyde: "packed back and front to overflowing, there are two of many books given to me by the poet-scholar Douglas Hyde, written in the language he did so much to restore to honour. One of these Abhráin atá leagtha ar an Reachtúire. Songs ascribed to Raftery, poems of I think the last of the Wandering poets of Ireland, who was yet, a hundred years ago, making songs that are still loved and sung. The book is dedicated to me, the legends and poems were in part gathered by me. His name is held in high honour, there was a great gathering at his burying place when we put a stone with his record over his yet remembered grave, though his life was but a hard one: as he tells - Going West on my journey, With the light of my heart; Weak and tired, To the end of my road ... ".
180. [ICARUS] Icarus. Periodical. Illustrated. Dublin: n.d. (c.1966). Quarto. pp. [40]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. €185 No copy in T.C.D. library. Suppressed in issue because of insertion of 'Funny Boy' by M.L. Lowes. With contributions by Rudi Holzapfel, Seamus Heaney, Brendan Kennelly and Geoffrey Thurley. Includes Seamus Heaney's 'Undine'.
181. [IRELAND GUIDE] Ireland 1925. A short survey of the attractions, scenic and historical of the Emerald Isle. Official publication of the Irish Tourist Association. Illustrated. Cork: Guy, 1925. pp. 144. Original paper wrappers, spine repaired. A very good copy. Very rare. €135 A rare tour guide with forty-four pages of adverts the early from years of the Irish Free State.
182. [IRISH GRAND PRIX] A Collection of 53 Original Period Photographs taken at the Irish Grand Prix, Phoenix Park Race, Dublin, in 1937. Each photo measures approximately 140 x 90mm. One large photograph measures 267 x 88mm. All in very good condition. €675 Written on the reverse is "Phoenix Park" on some, on others "PP" This is a delightful group of very historic vintage photographs. Motor racing has taken place in the Phoenix Park since 1903, and during the period 1929 - 1931 the Park was the venue for the first ever Irish Grand Prix which led to the annual motor racing event that continues to this day. The Motor Races were originally the model for Albert Park in Melbourne which also set up its own race meeting. 58
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The Irish International Exhibition (sometimes Dublin International) was a world's fair held in Dublin in 1907. The decision to hold the exhibition was taken at the Irish Industrial Conference in April 1903, and was inspired by the Cork International Exhibition. The main aim of the exhibition was to improve the trade of Irish goods. The leading force behind the project was William Martin Murphy, a prominent businessman and owner of the Irish Independent, Clerys Department Store, the Dublin United Transport Company and many other Irish and overseas ventures. Three million visitors attended the Irish International Exhibition from May to November 1907 at the 30-acre site we now know as Herbert Park, Ballsbridge. The focal point of the exhibition was an enormous central palace with four wings representing the provinces of Ireland. Massive losses of about £100,000 sterling were incurred, although this was underwritten by guarantors. As well as contributions from countries including Canada, France and New Zealand there were displays of motor cars, electric and gas lighting and machinery; fine art displays including work by Eva Henrietta Hamilton; funfair amusements; a display depicting life in British Somaliland, the 'Somali village', was the exhibition's most popular attraction. The pond at the end of the water chute is the only reminder of those days and the quiet groves and pathways in the park make it hard to imagine the hustle and bustle of those six months in 1907.
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De Búrca Ra re Books 184. [IRISH NATIONAL FUND] A Receipt to certify that Bernard Rice has subscribed £1 to The Irish National Fund for the Proper Maintenance of Political Prisoners in Ireland and to the assistance of their families. Signed by Mathew Dowdall and John Fagan, Honorary Secretaries, dated 15th December 1851. Illustrated with the arms of the four provinces (two provinces on either side). Some wear to corners, tape on verso to crease, otherwise a good copy. Exceedingly rare. €265 185. [IRISH PARLIAMENT] Sixteene Queres Propounded By the Parliament of Ireland to the Judges of the said Kingdome : As Also, Another Speech, made by Captaine Audley Mervin, to the House of Commons, concerning their Privileges, and their exorbitant grievances in that Kingdome [London], 1641. Quarto. pp. [2], 14, 13-18. Text continuous despite pagination. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, titled in gilt. A very good copy. Very scarce. €345
ESTC R17541. Wing I 652. Sweeney 2508. Sir Audley Mervin obtained lands in Ulster and after being elected M.P. for Tyrone in 1630. He played a significant role both as soldier and statesman for the next quarter of a century. Towards the end of his career he was speaker of the Irish Restoration Parliament. Few Irish politicians of his day matched his enthusiasm in having their speeches published. In 1641 he led the attack on Strafford in the Irish House of Commons, presenting articles of impeachment against Sir Richard Bolton, Lord Chancellor of Ireland; John Bramhall, Bishop of Derry; Sir Gerard Lowther, Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas; and Sir George Radcliffe, member of the Privy Council of Ireland. These were friends and ministers of the Earl of Strafford, then under impeachment by the Commons of England. 61
De BĂşrca Ra re Books Between 1641 and 1661 he served in the Army, rising to the rank of Colonel. At one point he was arrested and returned to England but was shortly thereafter allowed to go back to Ulster. In 1660 he was appointed as one of twelve commissioners sent from Tyrone to Charles II, was knighted, and was appointed to the post of prime serjeant-at-law, the senior law post in Ireland. James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, however distrusted him and preferred to take advice only from the Attorney General for Ireland, Sir William Domville, so that in a few years Mervyn's role as legal adviser effectively lapsed. According to the Oxford DNB, "Opinions concerning Mervyn, both in his own day and since, have been various, but rarely complimentary, with frequent accusations of corruption, lack of scruple, or the pursuit of self-interest above principle". This pamphlet contains a speech by Captain Audley Mervin to the Irish House of Commons "concerning their privileges and their exorbitant grievances." The speech was prompted by the FitzGerald petition: "But see the Roman Spirit of Mr. Fitz-Gerald, who would rather undergoe the hazard of being a Starre-chamber Martyr, then to submit our Priviledge to an extra judiciall debate". He was elected on November 11th and censured on December 13th.
186. JAMESON, John & OTHERS] Truths about Whisky. London: Printed by Sutton Sharpe and Co., 1878. Royal octavo. pp. vi, [2], 103, [7], 4 (plates). Original green cloth embossed in black and lettered in gilt. A good copy with fine impressions of the plates. Scarce. â‚Ź750
COPAC locates 13 copies. This seems to have been a joint venture by the principal four firms of Dublin Whisky distillers: John Jameson and Son, William Jameson and Co., John Power and Son, and George Roe and Co. They were starting to feel the effects of cheap blended Scotch whiskies and joined forces, they "have for the last two years been engaged in an endeavour to place some check upon the practices of the fraudulent traders by whom silent spirit, variously disguised and flavoured, is sold under the name of whisky". "As a great whisky book it records lost glories. The four gatefold plates are endlessly fascinating and a unique record of the Dublin distilleries now swept away by the vagaries of the market. Today you can still visit what remains of the Old Jameson Distillery in Bow Street ... Truths about Whisky is a unique record and a joy to read. A sense of outrage pervades its pages and with its concern for authenticity and consumer protection and its firm belief that the flavour of pot-still whisky cannot be rivaled, it anticipates a 21st-century zeitgeist ... it is also a very lovely book, written with passion and beautifully illustrated. Savour and treasure these Truths" - Ian Buxton in his introduction to the 2008 reprint. 62
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187. JAMESON, John. 'Soverigne Liquor'. A brief investigation into the making and maturing of good Irish Whiskey. Illustrations by F. Middlehurst. Coloured portrait of the first John Jameson after Raeburn. Dublin: Printed by John Jameson & Son, 1950. Small quarto. pp. 29. Quarter vellum parchment on yellow paper boards, title on pictorial label on upper cover. Small crease to margin of a couple of pages, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce. €95
188. JEPHSON, Maurice Denham. An Anglo-Irish Miscellany. Some Records of the Jephsons of Mallow. Illustrated. Dublin: Allen Figgis, 1964. pp. xiv, 434. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in illustrated dust jacket. €125 This is the story of a great house, Mallow Castle, and the remarkable family of Jephson who have lived there for over three hundred and fifty years. Brigadier Maurice Denham Jephson tells the colourful 63
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189. JERROLD, Walter. Lord Roberts of Kandahar, V.C. With illustrations. London: S.W. Partridge & Co., 1900. pp. 237, 28 (publishers list). Blue ribbed cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. €35 RARE DUBLIN EDITION ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBER'S COPY 190. JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the Words are Deduced from their Originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language and an English grammar. By Samuel Johnson. In two volumes. The fourth edition, revised by the author. Dublin: Printed for Thomas Ewing, in Capel-Street, 1775. Quarto. The fourth edition. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, title in gilt on contrasting labels on spines. Earl of Annesley's copy with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Spines professionally rebacked. Wear to corners, otherwise a very good set. Very scarce. €1,450 ESTC T117233. Out of the 203 private libraries in eighteenth-century Ireland most of these owners bought Irish reprints rather than the original English editions, they were from the landed proprietors, clergy, and lawyers. Irish booksellers probably made more from their reprints of Johnson than from any other leading writer. Ewing's two volume quarto edition of 1775 got the approval of Johnson, who wrote that the Dublin edition: "was more correct than the folio edition completed under his own inspection". For this Ewing edition there were only 280 subscribers, of which over 100 sets were taken by the Irish booksellers: Hay, Magee, Ferrar, Mills, Moncrieffe, Saunders, Smith, Walker, Watson, White, Williams and Wilson. Included in the subscribers are: Hon. Richard Annesley, Rev. Mervyn Archdall, Rev. George Ewing, John Foster, Rev. Michael Kearney, Rev. Philip Lefanu, Edmund Malone, Rev. Joseph Stock, Major Charles Vallancey, Isaac Weld, Mr. Samuel Whyte, etc. Richard Annesley, 2nd Earl Annesley (1745-1824), styled The Honourable from 1758 to 1802, AngloIrish politician and noble. He was the second son of William Annesley, 1st Viscount Glerawly and Lady Anne Beresford. He inherited the Earldom of Annesley created for his childless brother through the terms of the special remainder, as well as the Viscountcy of his father, in 1802. He represented Coleraine in the Irish House of Commons from 1776 to 1783 and then St Canice to 1790. Subsequently he sat for Newtownards until 1798, when Annesley was elected for Fore and Blessington. He chose the latter constituency and sat for it until 1800. He served as High Sheriff of Down in 1783. He married Anne Lambert on 25 September 1771 and with her had four children.
191. JOHNSTONE, Tom. Orange, Green & Khaki. The Story of the Irish Regiments in the Great War, 1914-1918. With illustrations and maps. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1992. First edition. pp. xxxviii, 498. Green paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €45 Nearly one third of a million Irishmen fought in the Great War and fifty thousand died. There was a significant Irish presence in every major theatre of war. The Irish were mobilised in three divisions; the 10th, 16th and 36th; as well as the traditional Irish regiments. While the achievements of the 36th, especially on the Somme, are well documented, those of the 10th and 16th divisions are told here for the first time.
192. JOYCE, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. London: The Egoist Ltd, 23 Adelphi Terrace House, 1918. First English edition from English sheets. pp. [vi] 299. Edition limited to 1,000 copies. Dark green cloth, title blind stamped on upper cover, spine gilt (barely visible). Light spotting to cream endpapers, otherwise a sound copy. €375 Slocum & Cahoon A13.
193. JOYCE, James. Exiles. A Play in Three Acts. London: Egoist Press, 1921. Second edition. pp. v, 154. Spine rebacked. Very good in original black cloth. €375 Slocum & Cahoon A14. This second English edition of Exiles was published by the Egoist Press in 1921 from new type, in an edition of 1,000 copies (500 of these were bound in dark green cloth). The remainder of the edition was disposed of to Jonathan Cape in 1924 who issued them in a new black cloth binding. 64
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194. JOYCE, James. Ulysses. London: for the Egoist Press by John Rodker, Paris, 1922. First English edition on handmade paper (printed in France). Small quarto. pp. [xv], 732. A very good copy in full green levant morocco bound at the White Rose Bindery. Spine lightly sun-tanned. Limited edition No. 1995 of 2000 copies. Very scarce. €2,750 Slocum & Cahoon 18. Arguably the greatest of modernist writers, James Joyce was a comic genius, a formal innovator, and an unsentimental poet of Irish life and language. He pioneered the use of inner-monologue and streamof-consciousness techniques, and made brilliant use of such devices as parody and pastiche. Ulysses, Joyce's mock-heroic epic novel, celebrates the events of one day (16 June, 1904) in the lives of three Dubliners and is modelled on episodes in Homer's Odyssey. The central characters, Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, and his wife Marian (Molly), correspond to Telemachus, Ulysses, and Penelope. This June day is known to Joyceans throughout the world as 'Bloomsday' . Published on Joyce's fortieth birthday (2 February, 1922), Ulysses is a landmark in twentieth-century literature, and one of the most famous and celebrated in modern literature. Written over a seven-year period in three different cities, it has survived legal action, bitter controversy and persistent misunderstanding. Literature, as Joyce tells us through the character of Dedalus is: "the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man". A most attractive early edition of Joyce's classic, which may truly be said to have changed the course of modern literature. Printed from the plates of the first edition, it is effectively the 2nd issue.
DOLMEN PRESS 195. [JOYCE, James] James Joyce and the Mullingar Connection. By Leo Daly. With an introduction by Bernard Share. Illustrated. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1975. Quarto. pp. 60. Brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Limited edition of 750 copies. A fine copy in fine dust jacket, with small repair. €65 Miller 231 The author argues that Joyce's two sojourns in the town of Mullingar were of far greater significance than the handful of incidental references in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake might suggest. This work is the fruit of four years of research into the Joyce connection. This book was given the 'Institute for Creative Advertising and Design' award for book design in 1975. 65
De Búrca Ra re Books 196. JOYCE, James. Dubliners. Introduction by Thomas Flanagan. Photogravures by Robert Ballagh. [New York]: The Limited Editions Club. Printed at the Wild Carrot Letterpress and Heritage Printers, 1986. Quarto. pp. xviii, [4], 289, [5]. Hand-Sewn and bound at Jovonis Bookbindery in quarter dark green straight-grained morocco over cream cloth boards, title lettered in gilt on spine. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies (445). Signed by Thomas Flanagan and Robert Ballagh. Loosely inserted is Newsletter of the LEC. A superb copy housed in publisher's grey cloth slipcase. €875 A lavish production, in superb condition with crisp tissue-guarded photogravures.
"LITERATURE - THE ETERNAL AFFIRMATION OF THE SPIRIT OF MAN" 197. JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Preface by Stephen James Joyce. Introduction by Jacques Aubert. With etchings by Mimmo Paladino. London: Folio Society, 2004. Edition limited to 1,760 numbered copies (No.300). Bound in full greek-blue morocco blocked in blue and gold to a design by Jeff Clements; gold coloured endpapers, navy blue endbands and silk marker. Top edge gilt. Housed in buckram solander box with Joyce's signature in gilt. A fine copy. €575 ONE OF 26 LETTERED COPIES 198. JOYCE, James. Finnegans Wake. Edited by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon, with a note by Seamus Deane. Foreword by Hans Walter Gabler. Introduction by David Greetham, Preface and Afterword by the editors. Dublin: Houyhnhnm Press, 2010. Bound in full black calfskin, square in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Special limited edition consisting of 26 lettered, 150 numbered and 24 Hors Commerce copies, printed on Magnani Mould Made paper. This copy is lettered 'K'. Signed by Danis Rose. In slipcase with a thirty-eight page hardcover booklet. A fine copy. €1,350 199. [JUNIUS] Junius. Stat nominis umbra. Engraved titlepage and frontispieces to each volume. A new edition. Two volumes. London: Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt-Court; for Vernor & Hood, 1801. pp. (1) xxxi, [1], 274 (2) [1], v, [3], 318, [2]. Contemporary full calf, covers framed by double gilt fillets and gilt floral roll. Spines with double labels and gilt tooling. From the library of the Langrishe family of Kilkenny. A very good set. €275 Variously attributed. Junius is the pseudonymous author of a series of letters that appeared in Woodfall's Public Advertiser from January 1769 to January 1772, attacking among others the Duke of Grafton, Sir William Draper, Lord Mansfield, and George III. He is generally thought to have been Sir Philip Francis, secretary to Lord Chatham - Oxford Companion to English Literature [Fourth edition, p. 440]. Also ascribed to Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, Horace Walpole, Lauchlin Macleane, Thomas Paine, and others. Includes bibliographical references. The first authorised collected edition was published in 1772 and was followed by numerous editions up to the 1850s. Lowndes in his Bibliographer's Manual states: "It is a work which must always preserve its high place among the classics of England; the author was a first-rate master of the art of rhetorical invective". Woodcut head and tail-pieces by John Anderson, twenty one engraved portraits by W. Ridley, H. Richter and Mackenzie. Each volume has an additional, engraved titlepage.
RARE DUBLIN PRINTING - EDWARD LYSAGHT'S COPY 200. JUVENALIS Decimi Junii Juvenalis Satiræ selectæ. Ad optimorum exemplarium fidem sedulo recensitæ, multitudine variarum lectionum adornatæ, commentario perpetuo Anglice conscripto et interpretatione Latina illustratæ a D.B. Hickie. Dublinii: Typis Jac. Cumming et Soc. 1 Temple Lane, 1818. 12mo. pp. 16 (Advertisement), xxvii, [1], 280, [8], 115, [5]. Contemporary full worn calf, title in gilt on brown morocco letterpiece. Upper joint weak, corners worn. Signature of Edward Lysaght of Bandon and Kilkenny on front flyleaf, signature of William Lysaght of Kilkenny on lower pastedown. Extremely rare. €475 COPAC locates the BL copy only. The NLI copy lacks publishers advertisement, present in our copy.
201. [KERRY'S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM] Kerry's Fighting Story 1916-1921. Told by the men who made it. Illustrated with a unique pictorial record of the period. Tralee: The Kerryman, n.d. (c.1948). pp. 197. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €125 66
De Búrca Ra re Books With detailed chapters on: The formation of the Volunteers in Kerry; Casement and his arrival at Banna Strand; Easter Week and its aftermath; Kerry's heroes; Election of 1918; Mutiny in Listowel; Sack of Tralee; The Lispole and Headford ambush; In Memory of Thomas Ashe; The Campaign in East, North and West Kerry, etc.
202. KINGSBURY, Benjamin. Prayers for the Use of Families. By Benjamin Kingsbury Birmingham: Printed by J. Thompson; and sold by J. Johnson, London, 1790. pp. [2], xvi, [2], 122. With a half-title. Contemporary full calf. Covers framed by a gilt chain-link roll, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Armorial bookplate of Daniel Conner of Manch. Some browning to endpapers. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €765 ESTC T179194 locates 6 copies only. 5 in UK and 1 in USA.
NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION 203. [KINSALE] Observations on the Bay, Harbour, and Town of Kinsale, (In the County of Corke; and Kingdom of Ireland) With an Account of some Transactions and Occurrences therein. From antient authentic Records and Experience. Facsimile copy of the 1758 edition. Cork: The Fercor Press, 1974. Quarto. pp. 16 + errata. Edition limited to 95 numbered copies. Fine in half morocco on maroon boards. €125 The importance of Kinsale can be judged from this entry for 1696: "September the 13th, Arrived the Virginia Fleet, homeward-bound, of 72 Sail, convoyed by three Men of War; and, on the 28th, 9 Indiamen, from China, richly laden, convoyed by 5 Ships of the Line".
LE BROCQUY'S MASTERPIECE 204. KINSELLA, Thomas. The Tain. Translated from the Irish by Thomas Kinsella. With one hundred and thirty-one brush drawings by Louis le Brocquy. Illustrated with maps, and three plates from the Lebor na hUidre, The Yellow Book of Lecan and The Book of Leinster. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1969. Folio. pp. 296. Black buckram, titled in white, design by Le Brocquy in white on upper cover. Limited edition of 1750 copies. Presentation inscription from the publisher Michael Gill. Slipcase. Fine in dust jacket. €675 Miller 154. In 1969, when Kinsella completed the entire translation, Liam Miller was inspired to ask Ireland's premier living artist Louis le Brocquy to illustrate the text. The result was a triumph, undoubtedly the finest Irish book of its time. "This is undoubtedly the most famous book issued by the Dolmen Press and has been widely acclaimed for Thomas Kinsella's translation of the Irish epic tale, for Louis le Brocquy's vigorous brush drawings, and for its general design" - Liam Miller.
THE FINEST BOOK OF ITS TIME 205. KINSELLA, Thomas & Louis Le BROCQUY. The Tain. Translated by Thomas Kinsella from the Irish Táin Bó Cuailgne. Brush Drawings by Louis le Brocquy. Dublin: Dolmen Press 1985. pp. vi, [1], 300, [4]. Small folio. Black cloth, image by Le Brocquy in white on upper cover, title in white on spine. Library Edition with [all] the illustrations of the first edition, in association with the University of Pennsylvania Press. A fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. €375 The Táin Bó Cuailgne – the Cattle Drive of Cooley – is the central story in the great old-Irish sagacycle featuring the Sons of Usnech, Cuchulain, Ferdia, Maeve and the rival bulls of Connaught and Ulster, culminating in the 'battle of the bulls'. The distinguished poet Thomas Kinsella began translating parts of the Tain while still a young man; short sections were published by Liam Miller's Dolmen Press in 1954 and 1960. The original limited edition of 1,750 copies published in 1969 sold out within months, and has become very rare and expensive. A reduced octavo edition with only 30 of the original 130 illustrations was published in 1970, and has been many times reprinted; but the full magnificent suite of illustrations was unavailable until this Library Edition was issued in 1985. It is itself a scarce book, as the bulk of the edition was distributed to libraries worldwide, and it has not been reprinted.
ONE OF THE FINEST DOLMEN PRODUCTIONS 206. KINSELLA, Thomas. Finistere. Designs by Hugh Kearns and Liam Miller, derived from carvings at Newgrange, Knowth, and Carndonagh. Dublin: Dolmen, 1972. First edition. Quarto. pp. [14]. Quarter green morocco on green cloth boards, title in gilt on spine, Ogham design blind67
De Búrca Ra re Books stamped on upper cover. Edition limited to 250 copies [No.131], set in Pilgrim type and printed on Van Gelder 'Oxhead' paper. Signed by Thomas Kinsella on limitation page. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. Very scarce. €385 Miller 196.
JAMES JOHNSTON ABRAHAM'S COPY 207. KIRKPATRICK, T. Percy C. The History of Doctor Steevens' Hospital, Dublin, 17201920. List of subscribers. Illustrated. Dublin: U.P. 1924. Quarto. pp. xvi, 397. Quarter linen on paper boards, title printed in black on upper cover and on paper label on spine. Two bookplates of J. Johnston Abraham on front pastedown and endpaper, one depicting the entrance to hospital and signed by Dr. Abraham, the Harley Street specialist who was also a subscriber to this work. Autograph letter from the author to Dr. Abraham taped in at end. Some fading and wear to corners. Loosely inserted is publisher's subscriber's form. A very good copy. Very scarce. €475 Dr. Richard Steevens (1653-1710) amassed a large fortune and died while holding the office of President of the Royal College of Physicians. He bequeathed his vast estate to his twin sister Madam Grizel for her lifetime and on her death to be used for the building of a hospital. She however decided to go ahead and build it in her own lifetime. Thomas Burgh drew up the plans in 1713, work commenced in 1721 and it took twelve years to complete. As part of the agreement Grizel Steevens lived in the hospital until her death in 1747 in her ninety-third year. Edward Worth bequeathed a splendid library which contains some magnificent bindings and it is now cared for by Trinity College. This work is a most detailed history of one of Dublin's most famous hospitals, tracing the birth of modern Irish medicine from 1700 to the early part of the last century. James Johnston Abraham (1876-1963) was born in Coleraine, County Londonderry, eldest son of William Abraham JP, a tea merchant originally from County Fermanagh, and Elizabeth Ann Morrison of Toberdoney, County Antrim. He was educated at Coleraine Academical Institution and the University of Dublin. He served his internship at Dr. Steevens' Hospital, witnessing a typhoid epidemic which provided him with subject matter for his novel Night Nurse, (1913). Abraham first practised in County Clare. Later in London where he was house surgeon at the West London Hospital from 1901 until 1906 when he spent a year as ship's surgeon, after which he was appointed resident medical officer to the London Lock Hospital; he was also assistant surgeon at the Princess Beatrice Hospital. During the First World War he served as medical officer with the Serbian, Egyptian and Portuguese armies, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. His various awards and honours included the DSO (1918); CBE (1919); the Serbian Knighthood of St. Sava (1915); MD and MA (Dublin 1912); LittD (Dublin, honoris causa, 1946). He married in 1920 Lillian Angela Francis of London who survived him by six years. 68
De Búrca Ra re Books CASTLEBAR PRINTING 208. [KNOCK SHRINE] Cumhal Mhuire. Our Lady of Knock. An Cnoc. The Handmaid - Our Lady's Attendant. Castlebar: Connaught Telegraph, [1937]. pp. 8. Illustrated stapled wrappers. Rare. €95
209. KNOTT, Mary John. Two Months at Kilkee, a Watering Place in the County Clare, near the mouth of the Shannon, with an Account of a Voyage down that river from Limerick to Kilrush, and Sketches of objects of interest in the neighbourhood, which will serve as a guide to the coast scenery. Added engraved titlepage, folding map, and one plate. Dublin: William Curry Jun. and Co.; G. Ridings, Cork: C. O'Brien, Z. M. Ledger, G. M'Kern, Limerick, 1836. 12mo. pp. 255. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Upper joint strengthened. Compton armorial bookplate on upper cover. A good copy. €285 COPAC locates 7 copies only.
210. KOHL, J.G. Ireland. Dublin, the Shannon, Limerick, Cork and the Kilkenny Races, the Round Towers, the Lakes of Killarney, the County of Wicklow, O'Connell and the Repeal Association; Belfast, and the Giant's Causeway. London: Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand, 1843. pp. [ii], 248. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards. Owner's initials on titlepage. All edges marbled. Minor wear to spine and corners. A very good copy. Scarce. €295 Johann Georg Kohl, the German travel writer came to Ireland in September 1842 "without" as he said himself, "any object in view other than to become acquainted with the country, and to see everything that was interesting and remarkable in it". Kohl was an experienced and astute observer and his widespread travels allowed him to compare Irish conditions with the general European experience. His book on Ireland is therefore an unbiased account from a neutral traveller unlike many of his contemporaries and provides a most valuable insight into the conditions of pre-Famine Ireland. Landing in Dublin, he found the houses and buildings there much the same as those in English cities. From there he proceeded to Edgeworthstown, on to Athlone, Shannon, Limerick, Kilrush, Tarbert, Tralee, The Lakes, Bantry, Cork, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford, Belfast, Giant's Causeway, Coast of Antrim - the MacQuillans and Macdonnells, Fair Head, etc.
211. LACY, Thomas. Sights and Scenes in our Fatherland. With engraved frontispiece and vignettes. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Dublin: M'Glashan and Gill, 1863. pp. viii, 720, + errata. Blind-stamped cloth with a Celtic design in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Recent endpapers. Minor wear to extremities, otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce. €275 Thomas Lacy of Wexford, sometimes styled 'the dacent Lacy' was employed as assistant to the solicitor responsible for negotiating the acquisition of land for the extension of the Dublin to Wexford railway. This volume deals with south and eastern Ireland and also included chapters on Bristol, Liverpool and London. It is of particular interest because of the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow and Dublin Railway project with which he was engaged. That line was projected by Mr. Brunel and it was promoted by the Earl of Courtown and Sir Thomas Esmonde. 69
De Búrca Ra re Books EXTREMELY RARE DUBLIN PRINTING 212. [LADY OF DISTINCTION] Helena, a novel. By a Lady of Distinction. Dublin: Printed by Wilson, No. 6, Dame-street, 1788. 12mo. pp. [4], 281, [1]. Contemporary full worn calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Signature of Susanna Meade, dated [17]88, on titlepage. Very good. Extremely rare. €1,250 ESTC T210987 locates the Toronto and Adelaide copies only. Not in TCD, NLI, OCLC or DCPL. Of the London edition, only the British Library and Harvard copies are recorded.
213. [LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND] Record of the Centenary of the Charter of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland 1852-1952. Foreword by James R. Quirke, President of the Society. With folding map of Dublin in 1610 and plan of the Four Courts in 1894. Illustrated. Dublin: Law Society, 1953. pp. 86. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Fine in frayed dust jacket. €95 214. LAW, Andrew Bonar. The Printed Maps of Ireland. 1612-1850. Illustrated. Dublin: Neptune Gallery, 1997. Folio. pp. [ii], 334. Green paper boards. Fine in colour illustrated dust jacket. €85 SIR WILLIAM GRACE'S COPY 215. LAWRENCE, Richard. The Interest of Ireland Stated. In two parts. First part observes and discovers the Causes of Irelands not more increasing in Trade and Wealth from the first Conquest till now. Second part proposeth Expedients to remedy all its Mercanture Maladies, and other Wealth-Wasting Enormities, by which it is kept poor and low ... And mixed with some observations on the politics of the government, relating to the encouragement of Trade and Increase of Wealth. With some Reflections on Principles of Religion, as it relates to the Premises. Dublin: Printed by Jos. Ray, for Jo. North, Sam Helsham Jos. Howes, W. Winter, El. Dobson, and Will Norman, Booksellers, 1682. pp. [xcii], 89, [xii], 96, [17], 96-272. Sir William Grace's copy with his armorial bookplate. Contemporary full calf, expertly restored. Repair to title. A very good copy. Very scarce. €675 Gilbert 465 Bradshaw 275 Wing L 680a Sweeney 2576. Colonel Richard Lawrence was Marshal-General of the Horse in Cromwell's new Model Army. Appointed Governor of Waterford he was given the task by General Ireton of settling 1,200 soldiers on the forfeited lands in Waterford, New Ross and Carrick-on-Suir. He was one of the commissioners appointed to treat with the Confederate Irish and he also acted as intermediary in the disputes of Ludlow with Fleetwood and Henry Cromwell. An advocate of transplantation (Hell or Connaught), he staunchly defended army interests in print against the schemes of Vincent Gookin. Lawrence was on the committee for the survey of forfeited lands, and quarrelled with Sir William Petty, stating that he and his brother officers were badly treated. After leaving the army, Lawrence, as a member of the council of trade occupied himself for about twenty years in schemes for the improvement of Ireland, where he had his old protagonist Petty as a colleague. This major work was published two years before his death, and it sheds much light on Ireland under Charles II. It is dedicated to James, Earl of Ossory, and the first part states the reasons why Ireland "so long under the Government of England, whose Policies in Trade are inferior to few Countreys, should be so little improv'd in Trade and Wealth". The second part proposes "Expedience for Ireland's Relief against its Trade-obstruction and Wealth-consuming Maladies hinted in the first Part".
216. [LEABHAR NA H'URNUIGH CHOITCHIONN] Leabhar na h'Urnuigh Choitchionn : agus frithealadh nan sacramainte, agus riaghailte agus deasghnatha eile na h'eaglais: do reir gnathachadh na h'eaglais Shasgonaich: maille ris an tSaltair no Sailm Dhaibhidh. Air am poncadh mar sheinnear no theirear iad san teampull. Dun Eideann: Clo' bhuailte le J. Moir, 1794. pp. [2], 2, [22], 471, [1]. Modern half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece on spine. A very good copy. €245 ESTC T140855. The leaf before the titlepage gives the translator as Patrick Stewart, and has an English titlepage on the verso which expands the imprint to include: Morison and Son, Perth; Davidson, Inverness; Angus and Son; and A. Brown, Aberdeen.
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See items 211 & 220 217. LEADBEATER, Mary. Memoirs and Letters of Richard and Elizabeth Shackleton, Late of Ballitore, Ireland; Compiled by their daughter Mary Leadbeater, including a concise biographical sketch, and some letters of her grandfather, Abraham Shackleton. A new edition, containing many valuable letters never before published. London: Charles Gilpin, 1849. pp. vii, 272. Recent quarter calf on marbled boards. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €275 COPAC locates 3 copies only. Richard Shackleton (1728-1792), a Quaker, succeeded his father, Abraham, as master of Ballitore boarding school in 1756. He was a close friend of Edmund Burke, with whom he visited and corresponded frequently. On hearing of the death in 1792 of his former school pal, Burke wrote: "Indeed we had a great loss. I console myself ... by going over the virtues of my old friend, of which I believe I am one of the earliest witnesses and the most warm admirers and lovers". This work was edited by Lydia Ann Barclay.
218. LECKY, William Edward Hartpole. A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century. New edition. Five volumes. New York: Appleton, 1893. Olive green cloth. A very good set. €150 Treating the political and social life of Ireland during the heyday of the Protestant Ascendancy. The work covers one of the most eventful and dramatic periods in Irish history, including the rise of the Irish Volunteers, the founding and growth of the Society of the United Irishmen, the diffusion of French Revolutionary ideas in Ireland, the bloody rebellion of 1798, and the disastrous Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland.
219. LEIGH, Samuel. Leigh's New Pocket Road-Book of Ireland, on the plan of Reichard's Itineraries; Containing an Account of all the Direct and Cross Roads; together with a Description of every Remarkable Place. Its Curiosities, Manufactures, Commerce, Population, and Principal Inns; the whole forming a Complete Guide to Every Object worthy the attention of Travellers. Illustrated with a coloured folding map of Ireland, a Table of the relative Distances between the Principal Towns, a plan of Dublin, and a map of the Lakes of Killarney. London: Printed for Samuel Leigh & Dublin: R. Milliken, 1827. 12mo. pp. viii, 360. Contemporary full green goatskin gilt. Title in gilt on spine and upper cover. Spine neatly rebacked with original laid on. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy. Scarce. €285 COPAC locates 5 copies only.
TRINITY PRIZE 220. LELAND, Thomas. The History of Ireland from the Invasion of Henry II. With a preliminary discourse on the antient state of that kingdom. In three volumes. The third edition, corrected. Dublin: Printed by Brett Smith, 1814. pp. (1) [1], lii, 379, (2) [1], 509, (3) [1], 630, 33 (index). Contemporary full tree calf, badge of Trinity College in gilt on all covers. Title in gilt on 71
De Búrca Ra re Books black morocco labels on professionally rebacked spine; splash-marbled endpapers. Prize label awarded to Hugh Hill, dated Hilary term, 1817 on front pastedowns. All edges marbled. A very good set. Extremely rare. €375 COPAC locates the BL copy only. Thomas Leland (1722-1785), historian, translator and academic, was born in Dublin, 1722, "of parents worthy and respectable, but not opulent or exalted." He was educated at Thomas Sheridan's school and then at Trinity College, where he became Professor of Oratory in 1763. Leland's frequently reprinted translation of the Orations of Demosthenes (1754-70) provided a model for Anglo-Irish parliamentary speaking. It was partly at the solicitation of Lord Charlemont. His Life of Philip of Macedon (1758) was for many years the standard work. In 1768 he commenced his History of Ireland, it was written principally at his vicarage at Bray. Charles O'Conor supplied Leland with translations of Irish annals in the hope that his forthcoming history would overturn the tradition of a wide-spread massacre of Protestants in the Rebellion of 1641. In the event, his History of Ireland from the Invasion of Henry II (3 volumes, first published, 1773) supported the version promulgated by Sir John Temple and others. He was ordained a Church of Ireland priest in 1748, served as Vicar in Bray, in 1773 he was appointed Vicar of St. Ann's Church, Dawson Street. He died in Dublin, August 1785, aged about 63. Disraeli speaks of him as "the eloquent translator of Demosthenes". Allibone, as "a profound scholar and most eloquent preacher". In a notice of Dr. Leland in the Anthologia Hibernica, vol. i., in which will be found a portrait and list of his works, the author remarks: "His fame for classical learning is unrivalled ... He never evidenced the smallest specimen of fondness for, or researches into, Irish antiquities ... In this history, on which his friends, with ill-judged fondness dwell, we find very trifling intimations of the constitution, government, and laws of Ireland; nothing of its learning, commerce, coin, or shipping; nothing of its architecture, poetry, or music, though admirable specimens of these exist; nothing of the language, dress, diversions, diet, and customs of the Irish. What then, it may be asked, does it contain? I answer, a dull, monotonous detail of domestic convulsions, a weak government, and a barbarous people".
221. LE QUESNE, Charles Esq. Ireland and the Channel Islands; or, A Remedy for Ireland. London: Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, 1848. pp. iv, 138, 32 (publisher's list). Recent quarter red morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Neat library stamp on titlepage. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €475 COPAC locates 6 copies only.
222. LESLIE, Rev. James B. Armagh Clergy and Parishes. Being an account of the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Armagh, from the earliest period, with historical notices of the several parishes, churches ... With a map of the Diocese and a view of Armagh Cathedral. Dundalk: Tempest, 1911. pp. xxiv, 471. Red cloth, title and arms of diocese in gilt on upper cover. Minor spotting to prelims. A very good copy. Very scarce. €150 WITH A CHAPTER ON THE RAREST IRISH BOOKS 223. LESLIE, Shane. The Script of Jonathan Swift and other essays. Illustrated. London: O.U.P. 1935. pp. [xiv], 97. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Light foxing to endpapers. A very good copy. €185 The A. S. W. Rosenbach fellowship in bibliography. Shane Leslie delivered these three lectures at Pennsylvania University in the winter of 1934. The subjects included: Script of Jonathan Swift; The Rarest Irish books; Saint Patrick's Purgatory. Sir John Randolph Leslie, 3rd Baronet, generally known as Shane Leslie (1885 -1971), diplomat and writer was born in Glaslough, County Monaghan, into a wealthy Anglo-Irish landowning family. His father, Sir John Leslie, 2nd Baronet, and his mother, Leonie Jerome, was the sister of Winston Churchill's mother, Jennie. In 1908, Leslie became a Roman Catholic and supported Irish Home Rule.
224. LESLIE, Shane. Saint Patrick's Purgatory. A Record from History and Literature. With illustrations and maps. London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1932. First edition. Quarto. pp. xlvii, 216. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Occasional light spotting. A very good copy in illustrated frayed dust jacket. Scarce. €95 Lough Derg was internationally celebrated in the later Middle Ages as the place of St. Patrick's Purgatory. A cave where Patrick was said to have fasted for forty days and to have had a vision of the 'Otherworld'. 72
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Station Island Lough Derg 225. LETI, Gregorio. The life of Pope Sixtus the Fifth ... In which is included the state of England, France, Spain ... With an account of St. Peter's, the conclave, and manner of chusing a pope; the Vatican Library, the many grand obelisks, aqueducts, bridges ... begun or finish'd by him. The whole interspers'd with several curious incidents and anecdotes ... Translated from the Italian of Gregorio Leti. With a preface and notes. By Ellis Farneworth. Dublin: Printed by and for S. Cotter; and, for L. Flin, 1766. Contemporary full worn calf. Armorial bookplate of Robert Montgomery, Convoy with his signature on titlepage. A good copy. €385 COPAC locates 2 copies only (British Library and Cambridge).
226. [LIBRARY CATALOGUE] Catalogue of the late Seamus Ó Casaide, Celtologist and Bibliographer, consisting for the most part of books in the Irish Language and concerning the Irish Language, including many scarce books, offered at the prices stated. The books are in good general second-hand condition. Orders of 10/- and upwards post free. Orders should be sent to Mrs. Ó Casaide, 81 St. Laurence Road, Clontarf, Dublin. Dublin: Printed at Cahills, n.d. (c.1944). pp. 30. Paper wrappers. A very good copy. Very rare. €275 Séamus Ó Casaide (1877-1943) was born in Fethard, County Tipperary the son of Michael Cassidy, a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary. He was a noted book-collector, and editor of The Irish Book Lover. He also compiled a book on Irish and Scottish Gaelic verse. He issued a Typographical Gazetteer of Ireland, or The Beginnings of Printing in Irish Towns, published in Dublin in 1923. In 1944 his executors presented ninety Gaelic manuscripts to the National Library of Ireland. The catalogue was issued under the following categories: Bibliography; Later Irish Edition of Works Printed Abroad; Catholic Religious Books in Irish; Catholic Religious Books in English; Protestant Religious Literature - Catechisms - Bibles; Latin Prayer Books; Gaelic Primers, Grammars and Phrase Books; Gaelic Dictionaries; Modern Gaelic Texts; Celtic Studies; Antiquities; Lynch Collection; General Irish History; Family History; Local History; Natural History; Anglo-Irish Literature; Chapbooks; Pamphlets and Periodicals.
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De Búrca Ra re Books LIMERICK'S FIGHTING STORY 227. [LIMERICK] Limerick's Fighting Story from 1916 to the Truce with Britain. Told by the men who made it. Edited by Col. J.M. MacCarthy. Illustrated. Tralee: Anvil, n.d. (c.1947). pp. 205. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €95 The story of three brigades, west, mid and east and their fight against the Occupation Forces in the county and city of Limerick.
228. LUCEY, Conor. The Stapleton Collection. Designs for the Irish Neoclassical Interior. Tralee: Churchill House Press, 2007. Folio. pp. 349. Greyish-blue cloth, title in white on upper cover and spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €95 Michael Stapleton (1747-1801) was the most skilled stuccodor working in the neoclassical or 'Adam' style that dominated Dublin interior decoration in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Dublin's eighteenth-century decorative plasterwork has long been celebrated, this is the first full length study of Stapleton's work. It publishes for the first time the remarkable collection of drawings from his workshop which are held in the National Library of Ireland.
SOUNDING THEIR BAGPIPES IN CONTEMPT OF US 229. LUDLOW, Edmund. / TOLAND, John. Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow Esq; Lieutenant General of the Horse, Commander in Chief of the Forces in Ireland, One of the Council of State, and a member of the Parliament which began on November 3, 1640. In two volumes. With: Memoirs of Lieutenant General Ludlow. The Third and Last Part. With a Collection of Original Papers, serving to confirm and illustrate many important Passages of this and the preceding Volumes. To which is added, A Table of the whole Work. Illustrated with engraved portrait. Three volumes in two. Switzerland: Printed at Vivay [actually London], 1698/99. Octavo. Modern half green morocco on marbled boards. Owner's signature dated 1698 on title and half title. Fine set bound in later full calf gilt. A very good set. €675 Wing L 3460 Sweeney 2908 & 2909. Edmund Ludlow (1620-1693), distinguished parliamentary general, born in Wiltshire, was chosen by Cromwell "as a fit person to be employed" to act as second in command to Ireton, with the rank of Lieutenant-General of the Horse in Ireland in 1650. After Ireton's death in 1651 he succeeded him as Commander-in Chief, and spent several years in Ireland. The sections of his Memoirs dealing with Ireland are very interesting. While recounting few striking events, they do, however, throw much light on the conduct of the closing scenes of the war between 1651 and 1653, the condition of the people, and the Cromwellian settlement. The most vivid pages relate to Ireton's siege of Limerick, the surrender of Galway to Sir Charles Coote, the reduction of Gorteen Castle, near Portumna (where he speaks of the garrison "sounding their bagpipes in contempt of us"), the capture of Ross Castle, Killarney and the consequent surrender of Lords Clanricarde and Muskerry. Ludlow was the fortieth in the list of those who signed the King's death warrant. It has been established by A.B. Warden that John Toland, philosopher, theologian and deist, a native of Inishowen, edited and re-wrote part of the Memoirs for publication. In fact he went as far as to present the regicide Ludlow as a Whig-Country gentleman "To create and to inhabit a personality" quite different from his own. The reason for this was simply, that Toland intended to influence the Whigs. The first two volumes were issued with pagination running throughout, with only a half title (all called for) at the beginning of the second volume. Although this work has a Switzerland imprint, it was in fact surreptitiously published in London.
230. LYNCH, Patrick. Some Members of the Munster Circuit. Cork: Woodlands Press, 1946. First edition. pp. 52. Printed stapled wrappers. Inscription on verso of front wrapper: "To Mr. Lynch / Please give your approval for me to circulate an issue to some members of the Munster Circuit as now produced / J. Reilly / 27.7.46". Patrick Lynch gave his approval on the same day and signed with his initials 'P.L.'. Loosely inserted is a photograph presumably of Lynch and Reilly and also a photograph of 'Little Falloch' a horse which was sold in August 1907. There is also a letter addressed to Patrick Lynch from The Patriotic Assurance Company Ltd. referring to a settlement and cheque for some loss under the policy. A very good copy. €145 With biographical notices of John Philpot Curran; Daniel O'Connell; Isaac Butt; The O'Loghlen Family; Charles R Barry; The Sullivans (A.M., D.B. and T.D.); Sir Edward Sullivan; Gerald Fitzgibbon; Peter O'Brien, John Atkinson; and Jonathan Henn. 74
De Búrca Ra re Books 231. McCANCE, Captain S. History of the Royal Munster Fusiliers from 1650 to 1922. With coloured plates, numerous illustrations and folding maps (in separate folder). Two volumes. Ballydehob: Schull Books, 1995. Second edition. pp. (1) x, 254, (2) x, 305, + maps. Limited numbered edition of 200 sets. Fine in buckram with slipcase. Very scarce. €275 232. MacCARTHY, Daniel (Glas). A Historical Pedigree of the Sliochd Feidhlimidh The Mac Carthys of Gleannacroim. From Carthach, twenty-fourth in descent from Oilioll Olum, to this day. Exeter: Printed for the Author, [1880]. pp. iv, [2], xv, 216. Brown pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine. Drummond of Blair armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Wear to spine ends and corners. Mild foxing to endpapers. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €385 No other Irish Mac name approaches MacCarthy in numerical strength. It is among the top twelve names in Ireland as a whole, due to the very large number of MacCarthy's in County Cork. Charles O'Conor describes the sept as "the most eminent by far of the noble families of the south".
233. MacCARTHY, John George. Henry Grattan : A Historical Study. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, & Co., 1886. Third edition. pp. 66, [1]. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. All edges red. A fine copy. €75 234. MacCATHMHAOIL, Seosamh. The Rush-Light. Beautifully illustrated by the author. Dublin: Maunsel, 1906. Small Quarto. pp. 67. Pictorial cloth. Decorative armorial bookplate of Wilbraham FitzJohn Trench and Mary Alicia Trench, his wife, on front pastedown. Usual staining to cloth cover. A good copy. €75
235. MacDONAGH, Donagh, & ROBINSON, Lennox. Chosen by. The Oxford Book of Irish Verse XVIIth Century-XXth Century. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1959, pp. xxxvii, 343. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Presentation inscription on front free endpaper. Fine in dust jacket. €35 236. MacDONALD OF THE ISLES, Lady. The House of the Isles. With illustrations and genealogical charts. Edinburgh: Privately Printed, [1925]. pp. [12], 168. Red cloth, title and armorial bearings in gilt on upper cover. Presentation inscription on half-title. A very good copy. Scarce. €145 Clan Donald is one of the largest Scottish clans. There are numerous branches to the clan. Several of these have chiefs recognised by the Lord Lyon King of Arms; these are: Clan Macdonald of Sleat, Clan Macdonald of Clanranald, Clan MacDonell of Glengarry, Clan MacDonald of Keppoch, and Clan MacAlister. Notable branches without chiefs so-recognised are: the MacDonalds of Dunnyveg, MacDonalds of Lochalsh, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and the MacDonalds of Ardnamurchan. The MacDonnells of Antrim are a cadet branch of the MacDonalds of Dunnyveg but do not belong to the Scottish associations and have a chief officially recognised in Ireland. The Norse-Gaelic Clan Donald traces its descent from Dòmhnall Mac Raghnuill (d. circa 1250), whose 75
De Búrca Ra re Books father Reginald or Ranald was styled "King of the Isles" and "Lord of Argyll and Kintyre". Ranald's father, Somerled was styled "King of the Hebrides", and was killed campaigning against Malcolm IV of Scotland at the Battle of Renfrew in 1164. Clan Donald shares a descent from Somerled with Clan MacDougall, who trace their lineage from his elder son, Dugall Mac Somhairle. Their dynasties are together commonly referred to as the Clann Somhairle. Furthermore they are descended maternally from both the House of Godred Crovan and the Earls of Orkney, through Somerled's wife Ragnhildis Ólafsdóttir, daughter of Olaf I Godredsson, King of Mann and the Isles and Ingeborg Haakonsdottir daughter of Haakon Paulsson, Earl of Orkney. Gaelic tradition gave Somerled a Celtic descent in the male line, as the medieval Seanachies traced his lineage through a long line of ancestors back to the High Kings of Ireland, namely Colla Uais and Conn of the Hundred Battles. Thus Clan Donald claimed to be both Clann Cholla and Siol Chuinn (Children of Colla and Seed of Conn).
IN FINE BELLEW BINDING 237. MacHALE, Most Rev. John. The Evidences and Doctrines of the Catholic Church. Showing that the former are no less convincing than the latter are propitious to the happiness of society. Second edition. Revised, with additional notes. London: Charles Dolman, 1842. pp. xii, 530. Bound by George Bellew in contemporary full red morocco with his signature lettered in gilt on inside of upper cover (G. Bellew, Bookbinder). Covers framed by a gilt and blind floral roll; flat spine decorated in gilt with clusters of shamrocks, title in gilt direct. Spine professionally rebacked. Carlow College prize label awarded to Eugene Downey on front pastedown. Light surface wear. All edges gilt. A fine copy. €285 John MacHale (1791-1881), Archbishop of Tuam, was born at Tobbernavine, at the foot of Nephin, County Mayo and was baptised by Fr. Andrew Conroy, who was hanged at Castlebar after the rising of 1798. Educated at a local hedge school and at Maynooth where he was ordained in 1814. He remained at that College for some time teaching theology. His series of public letters began in 1820 in which he attacked the tithe system, which obliged Catholics to contribute to the established Church of Ireland; he also advocated the repeal of the Union and Catholic Emancipation. These letters attracted the attention of Daniel O'Connell and MacHale became one of his most ardent supporters. An uncompromising nationalist, he continued to denounce the maladministration of English rule in Ireland, supported the agitation for reform of land tenure, and opposed the plans for national schools and Queen's Colleges put forward by Peel and Russell. Although supportive of the idea of a Catholic University he was opposed to the selection of Newman, an Englishman, as first rector. This brought him into conflict with Cardinal Cullen over the issue.
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De Búrca Ra re Books 238. MacHALE, John. Archbishop of Tuam. Homer's Iliad, Translated into Irish Verse. On corresponding pages, the original Greek, and Irish translation. First book. Dublin: Goodwin, Son and Nethercott, Printers. John Cumming ... London: Dolman, 1844. pp. 63. Original printed wrappers. Wear to spine, some fraying to edges. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €135 No copy located on COPAC. Not in NLI.
IN FINE BINDING 239. MacHALE, Most Rev. John. The Letters of the Most Rev. John Mac Hale, D.D. Under their respective signatures of Hierophilos; John, Bishop of Maronia; Bishop of Killala; and Archbishop of Tuam. Engraved frontispiece. Dublin: James Duffy, 1847. pp xix, 624. Bound in near contemporary full polished black calf. Covers framed by a gilt floral roll and a blind-stamped tooth roll, enclosing in the centre the gilt arms and motto of Carlow College. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt on brown morocco letterpiece in the second, the remainder richly tooled in gilt to a floral pattern; foreedges gilt, splash-marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €375 240. MacNAMARA, M.A. Authentic Derivations of Place-Names in County Dublin. Traced and explained with the aid of real evidence. Áit-Ainmneacha a d-Tír Bhail Ath Cléith. Dublin: Printed by Cahill & Co., 1922. pp. 145. Later cloth, title on original printed label on upper cover. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €285 No copy located on COPAC.
241. MacNEVIN, Thomas. The History of The Volunteers of 1782. Dedicated to William Smith O'Brien. Centenary Edition. Dublin: James Duffy and Sons, n.d. (c.1882). 12mo. pp. 250. Publisher's green cloth, title in gilt on spine. From the library of Prinknash Abbey with their armorial bookplates and withdrawn stamp. Spine rebacked. A very good copy. €65 242. McPARLAND, Edward. James Gandon, Vitruvius Hibernicus. With photographs by David Davison and numerous illustrations. London: Zwemmer, 1985. Quarto. pp. xv, 222. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. Fine in dust jacket. Very scarce. €175 Eighteenth-century Dublin was a great European city. The best of its architecture reflects this, in scale, quality and sophistication. James Gandon, an Englishman of Huguenot descent and William Chambers' greatest pupil, was Dublin's most distinguished neo-classical architect. This is the first illustrated study of Gandon's life and buildings.
SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 243. McTERNAN, John C. Sligo: The Light of Bygone Days. Two volumes. Volume I: Houses of Sligo & Associated Families. Volume II: Sligo Families. Chronicles of Sixty Families Past and Present. Lavishly illustrated with photography by John McTernan and Kieran Regan. Sligo: Avena Publications, 2009. Quarto. pp. (1) xiv, 504, [10 (index)], (2) xix, 409. Edition limited to 1,000 copies. With signature of the author on titlepage of both volumes. Fine in fine illustrated dust jackets. €100 244. MADDEN, Daniel Owen. The Speeches of the Right Hon. Henry Grattan; To which is added his Letter on the Union, with a Commentary on his Career and Character. Dublin: James Duffy, 1868. Second edition. pp. xxxvi, 37-468. Contemporary worn half calf on marbled boards. Stamp of Tullamore College on front endpaper and titlepage. A good copy. €45 77
De Búrca Ra re Books 245. [MAGUIRE, Comdt. General Tom] Eleven Galway Martyrs. Illustrated. Tuam: Tuam Herald, 1985. pp. 72. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. Very scarce. €75 The story of the Republican Soldiers of the Second Western Division, I.R.A. executed at Tuam and Athlone in 1923. Those who gave their lives for the Republic were: Comdt. F. Cunnane, Capt. Michael Walsh, Lt. Sean Maguire, Comdt. Martin Burke, Lt. & Q.M. Stephen Joyce, Vol. Seamus O Maille, Lt.-Comdt. Thomas Hughes, Lt. & Qm. Sean Newell, Vol. Hubert Collins, Vol. Martin Moylan, and Vol. Michael Monaghan. Sean Maguire's brother Comdt. General Tom Maguire of the Second Western Division unveiled the plaque on the memorial wall of Tuam Workhouse Oratory, where some of the volunteers were executed (including his brother Sean) by firing squad. Ruairí Ó Bradaigh delivered the oration.
MILLENNIUM PRESENTATION OF IRISH ART 246. MALLIE, Eamonn. Ed. by. One Hundred Years of Irish Art: A Millennium Presentation. Newtownabbey: Nicholson & Bass Ltd., 2000. Large quarto. pp. 300. Black arlen, titled in gilt on upper cover and spine; black silk marker. Limited edition number XXXIX, signed by Eamonn Mallie. Gilt on spine a little worn. A fine copy in fine slipcase. €200 Introductory essay by Eamonn Mallie: with contributions by Aidan Dunne, Brian Fallon, Solly Lipsitz, and Thomas Ryan. The chairman of Dunloe Ewart plc, Noel Smyth gives an introductory statement about his company and their involvement with this publication. A lavish and beautifully produced book listing in alphabetical order important Irish artists of the twentieth century, with biographical details and coloured images of some of their finest work.
247. MANGAN, James Clarence. The Poems of James Clarence Mangan; with biographical introduction by John Mitchel. New York: P.M. Haverty, 1870. pp. [i], 460. Brown pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine. Light wear to spine ends. A very good copy. Untrimmed. Spine faded. Extremely rare. €265 COPAC locates 2 copies only.
248. MASON, Thomas H. The Islands of Ireland. Their Scenery, People, Life and Antiquities. Illustrated from Photographs by the Author. London: Batsford, 1950.Third edition. pp. viii, 135. Green cloth. Spine faded, otherwise a good copy. €45 In The Islands of Ireland the author demonstrates his great love for those isolated parts of Ireland. His keen eye for the unusual in nature, the ancient in man's handywork and his intense feeling for island people emerges strongly from every chapter.
249. MATHEW, Frank. Ireland. Painted by A. Heaton Cooper. Described by Frank Mathew. New edition, fifty illustrations in colour, with tissue guards. London: Black, 1916. pp. xix, 212. Title in black with red border. Presentation inscription on front endpaper. Pictorial cloth. Light fading to cover. A very good copy. €135
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De Búrca Ra re Books CONNER OF MANCH COPY 250. MAUNDRELL, Henry. A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A.D. 1697 : The fifth edition, to which is now added an account of the Author's Journey to the banks of Euphrates at Beer, and to the Country of Mesopotamia. By Hen. Maundrell, M. A. late Fellow of Exeter Coll. and Chaplain to the Factory at Aleppo. Oxford: Printed at the Theater, An. Dom. 1732. pp. [12], 145, [7], 10, 12 [plates]. Contemporary full panelled calf, title in gilt on black morocco label on spine. Conner of Manch copy. Wear to heel of spine and corners. €395 ESTC T100589 The account of the journey has separate pagination, but the register is continuous.
IN FINE BINDING 251. MAXWELL, W.H. The Life of Wellington. New edition revised, condensed and completed. With twelve illustrations in permanent photography, numerous engravings on wood, and plan of the Battle of Waterloo. London: Bickers & Son, 1890. pp. ix, [1], 387, [1]. Bound by Spottiswoode, Binders in contemporary full red morocco, covers framed by double gilt fillets enclosing in the centre an armorial device. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt on brown morocco labels, fore-edges gilt; comb-marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Catherine Elizabeth Viscountess Galway on front pastedown. Small stain to upper cover. All edges marbled. A fine copy. €225 Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852), first Duke of Wellington, Field Marshal, was born in Dublin. In 1787 he was commissioned in the army, M.P. for Trim 1790-1795, and appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1807. He criticised absentee landlords and forbade triumphalist parades on the anniversary of the defeat of the United Irishmen. He suggested that the clergy should be enabled to grant leases of their tithes and should be obliged to reside in their benefices.
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See Maxwell's Life of Wellington RORY MAC GUYRE THE ARCH-REBELL 252. MERVIN, Sir Audley. An exact relation of all such occurrences as have hapened in the severall Counties of Donegall, London-Derry, Tyrone, & Fermanagh in the North of Ireland, since the beginning of this horrid, bloody, and unparaleld Rebellion there, begun in October last. London: Printed for Tho. Downes and William Bladen, n.d. [1642]. Quarto. pp. 14. Recent half morocco on marbled boards. A very good large paper copy. €675 Wing M 1880 Sweeney 3022. ESTC R212708 with 11 locations. Mervin, whose surname is alternately spelt Mervyn, obtained lands in Ulster and after being elected MP for Tyrone in 1640 played a significant role both as politician and soldier for the next quarter of a century. He chose his career filling the role of speaker of the Restoration Irish Parliament. Incidentally few Irish politicians of his day matched his interest in having their speeches published. Here he covers events from the start of the rebellion in October and this relation was presented by him to the House of Commons in London on June 4th. "I shall beginne with the County of Fermanagh, where those that had escaped the fire and sword of Rory Mac Guyre, the Arch-Rebell in that country, brother to the Lord of Enniskillen, drew themselves into Enniskillen, a place fortified by nature, under the Command of Sir William Cole, Colonell. The Inhabitants of that County of the other side of Loughearne, resorted to Master Cathcart, then HighSherriffe of the County, and Garrison'd in the Castle of Moyeigh, Lilgold, and Tullagh, Mac Guire having without any opposition ... wasted, burned, killed, and pillaged".
253. MILLIGAN, S.F. & Alice L. Glimpses of Erin: An account of the ancient civilisation, manners, customs, and antiquities of Ireland; short sketches of more important events in history, and of the social condition of the country, past and present; and papers on tours off the beaten track, descriptive of places and scenery not usually visited by tourists. With map, plates and adverts. London: Marcus Ward, n.d. (c.1890). pp. 280. Gilt decorated green cloth. A very good copy. €95 254. MILTON, Thomas. Seats and Demesnes of the Nobility and Gentry of Ireland. Illustrated. Kilkenny: Boethius, 1982. Second edition. Oblong octavo. pp. [142]. Blue buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. With original list of subscribers. Edition limited to 585 numbered copies, signed by Leslie Hewitt. Fine in slipcase. €175 80
De Búrca Ra re Books The engravings for Seats and Demesnes of the Nobility and Gentry of Ireland were made between the years 1783-1794 and issued in six parts each having descriptive texts. This extended publishing period led to differences in printings, which make the Milton a fascinating book. Different manufactures of paper were used in the originals, each with their own distinctive watermarks, some of them beautiful in themselves. There were at least two different typesettings of the descriptive texts and many variations in the printings of the plates have been noticed. These twenty four engravings of Thomas Milton are arguably the finest there are of their kind. Milton (1743-1827) was not prolific. His output was small, his work superb. Sometime a governor of the Society of Engravers, London, Milton came to Dublin in 1783 and established a practice. Quite clearly, Milton was an engraver of the front rank with a powerful and distinctive technique. W. C. Bell Scott, in his Autobiographical Notes had this to say. Milton "... had the unique power of distinguishing the foliage of trees and the texture of all bodies, especially water, as it had never been done before and never will be done again". The Boethius Press reproduction discusses some of these things in a twenty page bibliographical note. There are tracings of watermarks with references, enlargements of detail from some of the plates for comparison, and remarks on the typesettings. There is a seven page introduction dealing with Milton and the artists who painted the original pictures from which Milton engraved his plates. These were: Francis Wheatley, William Ashford, Thomas Roberts, and William Pars. Milton was a grand-nephew of John Milton, the poet and author of Paradise Lost.
DIRTY OLD TOWN 255. MITCHELL, Flora H. Vanishing Dublin. With fifty coloured plates and one page of text to each. Introduction by the Earl of Wicklow. Dublin: Figgis, 1966. First edition. Quarto. pp. x, 101. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with minor wear to spine ends. Scarce. €475 Flora Mitchell (1890-1973) was an American-born Irish artist, remembered in particular for her mid20th century paintings of old Dublin architecture. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska. After a Sioux Indian uprising around the turn of the century, her father moved the family to Ireland, where he went to work for the Jameson whiskey distillery. Flora studied art at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. She married William Jameson, a great-grandson of John Jameson, the founder of the distillery, in 1930. A sailor and yachtsman, he died in 1939. A few years later she moved to Killiney, where she lived and worked for the remainder of her life. Several hundred of her works, mainly Dublin scenes, are in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland. She is best remembered for the magnificent illustrations that she executed for Vanishing Dublin. Many of the buildings shown in this enchanting book have disappeared from the face of the city. The print run was only 600 copies, and considering the number of copies used for breakers, it is increasingly becoming a rarity.
256. MITCHELL, Susan L. Aids to the Immortality of Certain Persons in Ireland Charitably Administered. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1913. pp. xvii, 89, [2]. With a manuscript poem by Susan Mitchell in her hand on front free endpaper. Quarter vellum parchment on paper boards, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Scarce. €495 Susan Mitchell (1866-1926), poet and mystic of the Irish cultural renaissance, was born in Carrick-onShannon, County Leitrim. On the death of her father she was adopted by aunts in Dublin. In 1900 she stayed with the Yeats family in London, while attending doctors for a hearing problem, and found herself surrounded by participants in the literary revival, none more fascinating to her than George Moore. On her return to Dublin she was assistant editor for George Russell (A.E.) on The Irish Homestead and later sub-editor of the Irish Statesman. Her witty and charming observations of the literary scene are encapsulated in this satirical work, a collection of pasquinades in seemingly off the cuff but very well made verses.
257. MOORE, George. Aphrodite in Aulis. London: William Heinemann, 1930. Royal octavo. First edition. pp. vi, 340, [1]. Titlepage printed in red and black. Bound in natural vellum over bevelled boards, brown endbands, titlepage vignette stamped in gilt on upper cover, spine lettered in gilt. Signed limited edition of 1,825 copies. All edges untrimmed. A very good copy. €275 Gilcher A56.
258. MOORE, H. Kingsmill. Reminiscences & Reflections from some sixty years of Life in Ireland. London: Longmans, 1930. First edition. pp. x, 325. Full vellum, covers framed by gilt 81
De Búrca Ra re Books fillets and a floral roll to a panel design, spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands. Title and author in gilt on black morocco labels in the second and fourth compartments. From the library of Colin Smythe with his bookplate on front pastedown. All edges gilt. A very attractive copy. €275 For over half a century Dr. Kingsmill Moore was in close contact with everyone of importance in the Irish Church and State. During the reign of Terror in the South of Ireland 1881 - 1884, as School Inspector his reminiscences reveal a unique knowledge of events and personalities.
259. MOORE, Sidney O. The Family of Glencarra; A Tale of the Irish Rebellion. Illustrated. Bound with Trevor Tracts. No.1 - No. 12. Bath: Binns and Goodwin ... Dublin: Robertson, n.d. (c.1858). pp. xi, 154, + publisher's list. Contemporary half brown morocco, covers blind stamped to a panel design. Titles and legend in gilt on upper cover, gilt crosses in corners and in spine compartments. In gilt on upper cover 'In Memoriam / of / A.C.L'E. / She being Dead / Yet Speaketh'. Owner's signatures on front endpaper. With stamp of Webb Booksellers. Minor wear to extremities of binding, otherwise a fine copy. All edges gilt. Exceedingly rare. €475 COPAC locates 3 copies only. Loeber M529. With engraved frontispiece, half-title and two other plates. The story is set in County Mayo at the time of Humbert's Invasion, from the standpoint of the 'Irish Society' (a proselytising organisation). The author highlights the "ignorance and degradation peculiar to the Romish districts of Ireland", and tells how Aileen who was engaged to one of the rebels (a murderer) is converted, and endeavours to convert others, with some degree of success. A grotesque misrepresentation of the Catholic Church. The engraved titlepage depicts Moyne Abbey, which founded by Richard Bourke, Chieftain of the Mayo Bourkes in 1460.
THE BARD OF IRELAND AND THE TSARINA OF RUSSIA 260. MOORE, Thomas. Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance. Engraved title illustrated by Daniel Maclise. London: Longman, Brown, 1854. pp. [xiv], 287, [1]. Contemporary full green morocco. Covers tooled in gilt to a panel design enclosing in the centre a gilt harp with shamrocks. Spine with similar decorations in gilt. Pencil inscription on front endpaper. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €250 We did not know of any connection between Thomas Moore and the Tsars of Russia until we had an enquiry some years ago for a first edition of Lalla Rookh. Our customer informed us that it was going to the Summer Palace of the once mighty Romanoffs. Seemingly Tsarina Alexandra, Consort of Tsar Nicholas I, loved Thomas Moore's work and her favourite book in all the world was this classic oriental romance. It took pride of place in the Summer Palace Library at Peterhoff. The Tsarina Alexandra is still venerated and her birthday is celebrated each year on the 12th of July in St. Petersburg. The streets are strewn with white roses and parts of Lalla Rookh are re-enacted. This work was a bestseller in the early nineteenth century. In six months it ran into six editions, and into as many European translations. Its appearance in Persian inspired the playful verse: " I'm told, dear Moore, that your lays are sung Can it be true, you lucky man! By moonlight in the Persian tongue Along the streets of Ispahan". 82
De Búrca Ra re Books 261. MOORE, Thomas. The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Glasgow and London: Cameron and Ferguson, 1875. pp. [iv], 287. Later half morocco over marbled boards. A very good copy. €185 Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1763-1798), United Irishman, was born at Carton House, County Kildare. He joined the Sussex Militia and saw active service in America. Returning to Ireland in 1781 he sat in the Irish Parliament as member for Athy, voting with Grattan and Curran. In 1796 he accompanied Arthur O'Connor to Basle to negotiate with General Hoche for French help but the Directory would not deal with him because of his French wife's royalist connections. In May 1798 Fitzgerald was seized by Major Sirr in his room in Thomas Street. In the struggle that ensued he killed one of his attackers and was himself shot in the arm. He died of his wounds in Newgate Prison on 4 June.
262. MORAN, Right Rev. Patrick Francis. Bishop of Ossory. Spicilegium Ossoriense: Being a collection of Original Letters and Papers illustrative of History of the Irish Church from the Reformation to the year 1800. First and second series. Dublin: W.B. Kelly, 1874/1878. Crown octavo. pp. (1) xix, 512, (2) xv, 488. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary quarter morocco on cloth boards, title and image of St. Patrick in gilt on rebacked spines. A very good set. Very rare. €475 No copy located on COPAC.
263. [MOUNTNORRIS, Francis Annesley, Lord] A True Copie of the Sentence of Warre pronounced against Sir Francis Annesley Knight, and Baron Mountnorris, in the Realme of Ireland, in the Castle Chamber at Dublin in Ireland, the 12. of December 1635. Together with His Lordships Petition against Thomas Earle of Strafford … London: Printed for J.B., 1641. First Edition. Quarto. pp. [2], 15. Woodcut ornament on titlepage, woodcut initials, type ornament headpieces. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. 'A' of A True Copie close shaven with minutest loss. A very good copy. €1,250 Wing T2665 ESTC R15241. Sweeney T5216. Francis Annesley, Lord Mountnorris and 2nd Viscount Valentia (1585-1660), accompanied Lord Deputy Sir Arthur Chichester to Ireland in 1606. He rapidly carved out for himself a successful career in colonial government and accumulated large tracts of confiscated land throughout Ireland. He played a leading and self-rewarding part in the colonisation of Ulster and was appointed Secretary of State for Ireland in 1618. He opposed and plotted against Lord Deputy Falkland in the 1620's and was the prime mover in engineering Falkland's eventual recall to England on charges of injustice in 1629. As ViceTreasurer and Receiver-General of Ireland he was in full control of Irish finances when Thomas Wentworth was created Lord Deputy in 1632. Wentworth's own ambitions were incompatible with Annesley's and in 1635 the Lord Deputy brought charges of 'malversation', or corrupt administration against him. Annesley and his relatives responded with a campaign of public insult and alleged personal injury against Wentworth who countered by summoning him to a court martial at Dublin Castle where he was charged, as a military officer, of having treated his commander with disrespect, an act likely to breed mutiny. Annesley was found guilty and initially sentenced to death. An appeal brought commutation but he was stripped of his offices and imprisoned in Dublin Castle. This pamphlet prints Annesley's attempted rebuttal of the original charges of malversation, followed by a verbatim account of his subsequent trial before the 'Councell of Warre' at Dublin Castle. This is the only 17th century printing.
264. MURPHY, James. Lays and Legends of Ireland. Dublin: Duffy, n.d.(1911). pp. [vi], 104, (double column), 4 (publisher's list). Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine and upper cover. Owner's signature on half-title. Fading to spine, otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce. €65 265. MURPHY, L. An Impartial and Succinct View of Real Rebellion, in Six Reflections. Dedicated, by permission to Daniel O'Connell, Esq. Barrister at Law. Dublin: Printed By James Byrn, 25, Bachelor's Walk, 1815. 12mo. pp. viii, 118. Recent half calf on marbled boards. Titlepage in superior facsimile. Presentation inscription on rear endpaper "Polue Grant No. 27 Bridgefoott St / Dublin / presented to me as a token of gratitude / By the Very Revnd. Mr. Coyne of / Adam and Eve Chapell / Merchants Quay". Pasted on front pastedown contemporary inscription "For the Revnd. Mr. Coyne". Some browning to pages and spotting to fore-edge, otherwise a good copy. Extremely rare. Scarce. €375 COPAC locates the Cambridge and BL copies only. NLI holds the Joly copy. 83
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266. [MYAUK] The Indian Army ABC. Being a record of some of those depressing events that occur in the daily life of every Officer in the Indian Army. With coloured illustrations. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, n.d. (c.1900). Oblong octavo. First Edition. pp. [32]. Original stitched pictorial wrappers. Neat stamp of Barraud, Booksellers, Madras on cover. Presentation inscription on verso of titlepage. A very good copy. €75 An early 20th century ABC book, illustrating with wicked humour the travails of the typical British or Anglo-Irish officer of the Indian army.
267. [NOTORIOUS REBELS] The truest and most reall relation of the apprehension of three most notorious rebels in Ireland brought to the Parliament in England viz. The Lord Magwire, Collonel Read ... Captain MacMallion brother to Philomy O'Neill. London: Printed by true Intelligence for Tho. Powell, 1642. Quarto. pp. 8. Recent half morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy. Very rare. €1,250 Wing T 3133. Sweeney 5262. ESTC R16892 locates 6 copies only. Lord Maguire, cousin of Tyrone, was captured in disguise attending a cockpit and sent for trial along with Col. Read and Hugh MacMallion, brother to Philomy O'Neill. "They were brought last Monday before a Committee of both Houses, sitting in the Court of Wards, where when they first appeared at their examination before the Committee, they answered that they were Recusants, and being borne and brought up in the same religion, which the Catholique Church of Rome professed, they were also resolved to live and die in the maintenance thereof: Renouncing whatsoever shall be in opposition to the same. And that though they might be supposed to be Rebels, and so reputed, yet they did nothing (as they strongly did asseverate) but what the lawfulnesse of their consciences did suggest unto them".
268. NUGENT, Thomas, LL.D. The New Pocket Dictionary of the French and English Languages. In two parts. French and English - English and French. London: Longman, 1793. 12mo. pp. xii, 395, 28. Contemporary full diced russia. Spine expertly rebacked. Extremely rare. A nice copy. €275 ESTC T222458 locates 4 copies only. Thomas Nugent (1700?-1772), miscellaneous writer, was born in Ireland about 1700, but spent the greater part of his life in London. He was a competent scholar and an able and industrious man of letters. In 1765 he received from the university of Aberdeen the honorary degree of LL.D., and in 1767 was made a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He died at his rooms in Gray's Inn on 27 April 1772. The twenty-eight page section at end is 'A Supplement of Proper Names ...'.
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De Búrca Ra re Books THE LIBERATOR 269. [O'CONNELL, Daniel] Autograph letter signed from Daniel O'Connell to a Mr. Payne urging the recipient to come immediately as he has to attend Court. Dated Wednesday, no year given, in pencil Dublin Nov. 1826. Single octavo page written on one side only. In very good condition. €325 Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847), The Liberator, was born at Carhan near Cahersiveen, County Kerry to the O'Connells of Derrynane, a once-wealthy Roman Catholic family, which had been dispossessed of its lands. Among his uncles was Daniel Charles, Count O'Connell, an officer in the Irish Brigades in France. Under the patronage of his wealthy bachelor uncle Maurice "Hunting Cap" O'Connell, he studied at Douai in France. He became a barrister first at Lincoln's Inn, later transferring to Dublin's King's Inns. O'Connell devoted his life to the cause of Catholic Emancipation.
270. O'CONNOR, G.B. Elizabethan Ireland. Native and English. With large coloured folding map of Ireland made by John Norden, between 1609 and 1611. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker, n.d. (c.1906). pp. xvi, 294. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy with minor spotting to foreedge. €125 The contents includes: The Country; The People; The Towns; Laws and Society; Internal Feuds; English Political Administration; The Religious Question; Irish Soldiers and Elizabethan Warfare; The Armada Massacres.
271. O'CONNOR, John, Rev. An Essay on the Rosary and Sodality of the most Holy Name of Jesus. Wherein The profound Veneration due to God's Sacred Name is asserted: the Enormity of Blasphemy, Cursing, Protany Swearing, and particularly of the Oaths of Monopoly and Combination, are exposed, and efficacious Remedies prescribed. With a Narrative of the Origin of said Rosary and Sodality, their Excellence, Indulgences, &c. To which is Subjoined, An Introduction to the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary: giving an Account of its Institution, Indulgences, Privileges, &c. Together with The Rosaries of the Name of Jesus, and of the Blessed Virgin, with their respective Mysteries, Meditations, and Collects. The second edition, with additions, and cuts. By the Rev. John O'Connor, B.D. Dublin: Printed for P. Wogan, No. 23, Old Bridge, 1788. 12mo. pp. xii, 335. Later half calf on cloth. Lacks two leaves of appendix. Titlepage darkened, thumbed throughout. Stamp of Belfast Roman Catholic Library on last page of preface. Previous owner's stamp on page 214 and endpapers. Lower margin close trimmed. A good copy of an exceedingly rare item. €675 ESTC T105280 with 4 locations only. Pages 196-214 contain: The Method of Saying the Rosary of the Most Holy Name of Jesus with separate divisional titlepage. Pages 215-339 contain: An Essay or Introduction to the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, ... The third edition. By the Rev. J. Clarkeson, O.P.' and The Method of Saying the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, both with separate divisional titlepages.
272. O'CONNOR, T.P. M.P. The Parnell Movement. With a Sketch of Irish Parties from 1843. Authorised edition. New York: Benziger, 1886. pp. [v], 574. Green pictorial cloth, decorated in gilt with medallion portrait of Parnell and Home Rule shield on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €165 Parnell led the Irish Parliamentary Party as Member of Parliament through the period of Parliamentary 85
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nationalism in Ireland between 1875 and his death in 1891. Future Liberal Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, described him as one of the three or four greatest men of the nineteenth century, while Lord Haldane described him as the strongest man the British House of Commons had seen in one hundred and fifty years. The Irish Parliamentary Party split during 1890, following revelations of Parnell's private life intruding on his political career. He is nevertheless revered by subsequent Irish parliamentary republicans and nationalists. The contents include: The Fall of O'Connell; The Famine; The Great Clearances; The Great Betrayal; Revolution; Isaac Butt; Famine Again!; The Land League; The Coercion Struggle; Irish Nemesis, etc.
273. O'CONOR, Mathew Esq. Military History of the Irish Nation, comprising a Memoir of the Irish Brigade in the Service of France; with an appendix of official papers relative to the brigade, from the archives at Paris. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1845. pp. xi, 421. Contemporary worn half calf over marbled boards. Armorial bookplate of Sir Bindon Blood, with his signature in pencil on titlepage. Very good. Very rare. â‚Ź185 A detailed history of those valiant Irishmen who filled the ranks of French and Spanish armies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. High honours were bestowed on Bourke, Dillon, Mahony, and Lord Clare to mention but a few. The author covers the period 1550 to 1738 treating: The Campaign of Tyrone; Campaign of Sir Edward Stanley; Campaigns in the Service of France, Spain, Ireland (1690); Campaigns till the Peace of Ryswick; War of the Spanish Succession, etc. General Sir Bindon Blood, GCB (1842-1940) was a British military commander who served in Egypt, Afghanistan, India and Africa. 86
De Búrca Ra re Books Born near Jedburgh, Scotland, Blood was the eldest son of William Bindon Blood, of Cranaher, County Clare and related to Colonel Thomas Blood who attempted to steal the Crown Jewels in 1671. Sir Bindon attended the Royal School, Banagher, Queen's College, Galway, and the Addiscombe Military College. He was commissioned in 1860 in the Royal Engineers as a temporary lieutenant in charge of signalling and pontoon bridge construction in India, and for brief periods in Zululand and South Africa. Promoted to captain in 1873, he served with British forces in the North-West Frontier (Jowaki). In 1879 he was sent back to Africa for the Anglo-Zulu War. He went on to fight in the Second AngloAfghan War and the battle of Tel-el-Kebir. By 1882 he was a brevet lieutenant-colonel. The Blood family was established in county Clare from the early 17th century. By the mid 18th century the senior branch of the family was living at Roxton, parish of Rath, barony of Inchiquin and by the end of the 18th century their main residence was Cranagher, parish of Clooney, barony of Bunratty Upper, inherited through William Blood's marriage to Elizabeth Bindon in 1772. Blood died at an advanced age and was known as 'Father of the British Army'.
274. Ó CROHAN, Tomás. The Islandman. Translated from the Irish by Robin Flower. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. pp. xvi, 245. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Fine in fine price-clipped dust jacket. €25 "THE LAST OF THE GRAND OLD SCHOLARS OF IRELAND" 275. [O'DALY, Aenghus] The Tribes of Ireland: A Satire, with poetical translation by the late James Clarence Mangan; together with An Historical Account of the Family of O'Daly; and an introduction to the history of satire in Ireland. Dublin: John O'Daly, 1852. pp. 112. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth. Lightly faded and stained. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €175 COPAC locates 6 copies only. John O'Daly, author and publisher, was born at Farnane, Co. Waterford in 1800 and was educated at a local hedge school. Like Carleton he was of peasant stock but while lacking Carleton's literary genius, O'Daly was a much more versatile individual, a purveyor of fine books, a writer and publisher, a good Irish scholar, a translator, an editor, and Secretary of the Irish Antiquarian Society. We know the Munster poet Timothy O'Sullivan was a frequent visitor in his father's house. O'Donoghue tells us in his Life of Mangan, that O'Daly was not approved of by certain of his countrymen on account of having in his youth enrolled in the ranks of "The Soupers" in Kilkenny. John Keegan, another peasant poet tells us: "I first met O'Daly in Kilkenny in 1833, when he kept the school there for teaching Irish to the Wesleyans of that city. He, I am sorry to say, has renounced the Catholic creed, and was then a pious Biblical. He subsequently came back and is now living in Dublin, Secretary to the Celtic Athenaeum, and keeps a bookseller's shop in Anglesea Street. He is one of the best Irish scholars in Ireland ... low-sized, merry countenance, fine black eyes, vulgar in appearance and manners, and has the most magnificent Munster brogue that I ever had the luck to hear". By 1850 we find him publishing many works in Gaelic and on Irish history, often in collaboration with that prince of scholars, John O'Donovan. Some of his Gaelic translations were versified by Mangan. O'Daly was a founder member of the Ossianic Society of which he was president from 1855 to 1857. His book catalogues are both erudite and interesting. After he died in Dublin in 1878, no effort was made to secure any of the manuscripts he left behind, some of them Carolan's, and their whereabouts remain a mystery. He was described by Eleanor Hull as "The last of the grand old scholars of Ireland".
276. [O'DALY, Aenghus] The Tribes of Ireland: a satire. With poetical translation by the late James Clarence Mangan. Together with an account of the family of O'Daly by John O'Donovan. Cork: Tower Books, 1976. pp. 112. Title in red and black. Blue paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €65 87
De Búrca Ra re Books 277. O'DOCHARTAIGH, Seoirse F. O'Doherty People and Places. With illustrations, maps and genealogical tables. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 1996. pp. 82, xliv (genealogies). Fine in stiff illustrated wrappers. €15 Doherty in Irish Ó Dochartaigh, which is said to be derived from the word 'dochartach' meaning obstructive, this large and powerful sept is of the same stock of the O'Donnells. Originating in the barony of Raphoe, County Donegal, the O'Doherty chiefs extended their territory till they became Lords of Inishowen in the fourteenth century, but they were greatly reduced as a result of the ill-timed rebellion of Sir Cahir O'Dougherty in 1608.
ORDNANCE SURVEY LETTERS 278. O'DONOVAN, John. Ed. by. Letters Containing information relative to the Antiquities of the Counties of Armagh and Monaghan. Collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1835. Illustrated with maps and plans. Facsimile reprint of the Bray edition (1927) which was limited to 75 copies. Quarto. pp. xxvi, 76, 8 (maps). Full buckram. Fine. Very rare. €135 In 1829 our greatest antiquary, John O'Donovan, was appointed to the staff of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland under George Petrie, a position left vacant on the death of Edward O'Reilly. It was his job to examine the ancient Irish manuscripts and records for the purpose of determining the nomenclature to be used on the maps. He travelled the length and breadth of Ireland and collected every scrap of information relative to the historic buildings and sites, often from the local historians and seanachies. This he recorded in a series of letters. These were published in 1927 for each of the counties surveyed.
LIMITED EDITION SIGNED 279. O'FLAHERTY, Liam. The Ecstasy of Angus. London: Joiner & Steele, 1931. First edition. Quarto. pp. 43. Limited edition of 350 copies. Signed and numbered by Liam O'Flaherty on limitation page. Full green linen. With author's signature stamped in gilt on upper cover. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. Scarce. €275 LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 280. O'FLAHERTY, Liam. The Wild Swan and Other Stories. Portrait frontispiece by P.V. Moon and a foreword by Rhys Davies. Being No.10 of the Furnival Books. London: Joiner & Steele, 1932. Royal octavo. pp. 60. Publisher's note tipped in. Brown cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Edition limited to 500 copies. Signed by Liam O'Flaherty on limitation page. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €125 ILLUSTRATED BY LOUIS LE BROCQUY 281. O'GRADY, Desmond. The Gododdin. Ink Paintings by Louis Le Brocquy. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1977. Imperial octavo. pp. 78, [1]. Black buckram. Edition limited to 650 copies. Signed presentation copy from Desmond O'Grady. Fine. €225 Aneirin, the sixth-century Welsh poet is reputed to have been one of a handful of survivors from the battle of Catraeth, which inspired his epic poem The Gododdin. But this poem is a universal celebration of the undying theme of the ideal hero.
282. O'HALLORAN, Rev. W. Early Irish History and Antiquities, and the History of West Cork. With large coloured folding genealogical map of Ireland before the Anglo-Norman Invasion. Dublin: Sealy Bryers and Walker, 1916. pp. vi, 182. Green cloth, title in maroon on upper cover and spine. Some fading to cloth, mild foxing to prelims. A very good copy. Very scarce. €275 283. O'HARA, Bernard Ed. by. Mayo. Aspects of its heritage. With maps and illustrations. Galway: 1982. pp. [ix], 313. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine good copy in frayed dust jacket. €45 This book is a study of some aspects of the rich heritage of County Mayo. It covers the origin of the county; it's history; archaeology; placenames; surnames; Ulster migration to Mayo; "The Year of the French"; Mayo elections, etc. With contributions by Bernard O'Hara, Nollaig Ó Muraíle; Desmond O'Neill; Gabriel Colleran; Rev. Jarlath Waldron; Máirtín O Direáin; Brian O'Rourke; Barbara Buckley; Michael Leonard; Father Leo Morahan and Thomas Neary. 88
De Búrca Ra re Books 284. O'HART, John. The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry when Cromwell came to Ireland; or, A Supplement to Irish Pedigrees. Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, and James Duffy & Sons, 1884. pp. xviii, 773, + errata. Original cloth with gilt armorial shield on upper cover and spine. Armorial bookplate of Arthur W. Jephson on front pastedown. Signature of Conner, Manch, on front flyleaf. All edges gilt. Very good. Scarce. €275 This work contains a wealth of information for the students of sixteenth and seventeenth century Ireland. Its chief value lies in the extracts of documents appended to the main text. The originals of these documents which relate to seventeenth century land settlements, were lost in the destruction of the Public Record Office in 1922, making the appendix more valuable than the author ever imagined. Includes a three page list of subscribers.
285. O'HART, John. Irish Pedigrees; or The Origin and Stem of The Irish Nation. Two volumes. New York: Murphy & McCarthy, 1923. Limited American Edition. Quarto. pp. (1) xxxii, 912, (2) xxiv, 948, 22. Brown blind-stamped cloth, armorial shield in gilt on upper cover, title and volume number in gilt panels on spine. All edges light brown. A fine set. €475 John O'Hart (1824-1902), genealogist, was a native of Crossmolina, County Mayo. Although it was his wish to join the priesthood, family circumstances prevented this. He joined the Royal Irish Constabulary, but left after two years to take up a teaching post with the Commissioners of National Education. This is the best edition of O'Hart's magnum opus on Irish families. In the preface to this work we are told that: all the Genealogies contained in the third edition of Irish Pedigrees, as well as those given in Irish Landed Gentry when Cromwell came to Ireland are included as well as descriptions of the armorial bearings of the families traced. Included in this volume are the genealogies of many of the Huguenot families, the Protestant refugees who were driven from their homes in France during the reign of Louis XIV. There is also an excellent appendix containing lists of Irishmen who have served in the Spanish army, Austria, Irish Legion, Irish Brigade, Spanish Netherlands, with various lists of Irish and Anglo Irish families and descendants of the 'Wild Geese'.
286. O'HART, John. Irish Pedigrees; or The Origin and Stem of The Irish Nation. Portrait frontispiece. In two volumes. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1989 reprint of 1892 (fifth) edition. pp. (1) xxxii, 896 (2) xxiii, 948. Green cloth, title in gilt. A fine copy. €165 287. O'LEARY, Canon Peter. Irish Numerals and how to use them. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, n.d. pp. 20. Printed blue wrappers. A very good copy. €30 288. O'MAHONY, Jeremiah. West Cork and Its Story. Portrait frontispiece of the author. Cork: Tower Books, 1975. pp. xii, 288. Brown paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. A very good copy. Very scarce. €75 COPAC locates 1 copy only.
289. O'MEARA, John J. The Voyage of Saint Brendan. With translation. Paintings by Daniel de' Angeli. Dublin: Four Courts, 1994. Quarto. pp. 95. Grey coarse linen, ogham decoration on upper cover, title in black on spine. A fine copy. €45 290. O'MOORE, MacCarthy. Tips For Travellers: or, Wrinkles for the Road and Rail. A VadeMecum for the Young, the Middle-Aged, and the Old. London: Elliot Stock, 1899. pp. [vi], 158, [1]. Green cloth, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €75 An amusing index for the would-be traveller of the late Victorian era: Perils in Cabs; Take Some Candles; Never Throw Bottles from Windows; Perils of Street Crossing; Cures for Sea-Sickness; Walk Short Distances at First, etc., etc.
291. O'NEILL, Sean. O'Neill People and Places. With numerous illustrations. Ballinakella: 1991. pp. 70. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. €15 The first of the great Ulster sept to bear the surname O'Neill was Donell O'Neill, the eponymous ancestor being his grandfather Niall, King of Ireland, who was killed in a battle with the Norsemen in A.D. 919, not, as might be supposed, the famous Niall of the Nine Hostages, though that somewhat legendary and heroic character was also a remote ancestor. From that time until the end of the seventeenth century, when Ulster ceased to be the leading Gaelic province of Ireland, the O'Neills figure prominently among the great men of Irish history. The O'Neills were the chief family of Cinel Eoghan, their territory being Tir Eoghan. In early times their ancestral patrimony comprised not only that of County Tyrone, but most of Derry and part of Donegal. 89
De Búrca Ra re Books 292. O'ROURKE, Fergus J. The Fauna of Ireland. An Introduction to the Land Vertebrates. Illustrated. Cork: Mercier Press, 1970. pp. 176. Maura Scannell's copy with her signature on front endpaper. A very good copy in illustrated wrappers. €25 YEATS AND JAPAN 293. OSHIMA, Shotaro. W.B. Yeats and Japan. Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1965. Royal octavo. pp xiv, 198. Green buckram, title in gilt on spine. Laid in is publisher's envelope with "improved images" for four of the plates. Limited first edition. Complimentary slip, signed by Shotaro Oshima to Miss Aileen Harte loosely inserted. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Preserved in publisher's card slipcase. €195 294. O'SULLIVAN, Donal. Carolan. The Life Times and Music of an Irish Harper. In two volumes. I. The Life and Times and The Music. II. The Notes to the Tunes and The Memoirs of Arthur O'Neill. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, portraits and musical examples. Two volumes. London: Routledge, 1958. First edition. Quarto. pp.(1) xv, 285, (2) xiii, 200. Blue cloth with harp in gilt on upper cover and title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €295 Turlough O'Carolan (Toirdhealbhach Ó Cearbhalláin) was born in 1670 near Nobber, County Meath and died March 25, 1738 at the home of his patron Mrs. MacDermott Roe in Alderford, County Roscommon. He was the last Irish harper-composer whose pieces have survived in any significant number. Carolan's father, John, was either a farmer or a blacksmith. The family moved to Ballyfarnon where John Carolan was employed by the MacDermott Roe family. Mrs. MacDermott befriended the boy and gave him an education. In his early youth he was blinded by smallpox and he adopted music as a career. Carolan married Mary Maguire with whom he settled on a farm near Mohill, County Leitrim. They had seven children, six daughters and a son. His wife died in 1733. There is little record of Carolan's children. His daughter Siobhan married Captain Sudley and his son published a collection of Carolan's tunes in 1747.
295. O'SULLIVAN, M.D. Old Galway. The History of a Norman Colony in Ireland. With maps and illustrations. Galway: Kennys, 1983. pp. x, 488. Red buckram boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. Scarce. €95 The chapters include: Founding of the Colony, 1230-1333; The City State, 1333-1560; The Anglo-Irish Town, 1560-1585; The Objective of Spain, 1585-1603; Towards Alliance with the Natives, 1603-1625; In the National Camp, 1625-1643; Insurrection, 1643-1651; Defeat, 1651-1652; Surrender and the Aftermath, 1652-1659; The Municipality; Relations with the Central Government; Relations with the Natives; The Church; Trade; Town Finance and Public Services; Manners and Customs - Games and Past-times; Culture; List of Authorities.
296. [O'SULLIVAN, Maureen] Autographed 8" x 10" black and white photograph. A fine photograph of the actress Maureen O'Sullivan, signed by her in ink. 203 x 250mm. In fine condition. €75 Maureen O'Sullivan was born on May 17, 1911 in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland. She was discovered by director Frank Borzage and her first screen success came in 1931 with Will Rogers in A Connecticut Yankee. Her most famous role was Jane in the Tarzan series, opposite Johnny Weissmuller. O'Sullivan had seven children (including Mia Farrow) with husband John Farrow. She died in 1998 aged 87.
297. [O'SULLIVAN, Mortimer] Captain Rock Detected, or, The Origin and Character of the recent Disturbances: and the Causes, both Moral and Political, of the Present Alarming Condition of the South and West of Ireland, fully and fairly Considered and Exposed. By a Munster farmer. London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand; R. Milliken, Bookseller to the University, &c. Dublin; 90
De Búrca Ra re Books and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1824. 12mo. pp. [2], 450. Modern marbled boards, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. A very good copy. Rare. €145 Goldsmiths'-Kress Library 2.4054 Mortimer O'Sullivan (1791-1859) D.D., a theological writer, Church of Ireland clergyman, member of the Orange Order and champion of the Irish Church was born a Catholic in Clonmel, County Tipperary, the son of a Catholic schoolmaster. He converted to Protestantism in boyhood and was educated as a Protestant. He attended Trinity College, Dublin where he graduated with an MA in 1812 and was ordained about 1816. In 1826 he succeeded Thomas Le Fanu, father of Sheridan Le Fanu as chaplain to the Military School in the Phoenix Park. Throughout the 1830s and 1840s he was the chief ideologist of the Dublin University Magazine, a role he shared with his brother Samuel, also a convert and a cleric. Dr. O'Sullivan was rector of Killyman until 1849, when he was collated to the prebend of Ballymore. He was the first Head Master of the Royal School of Dungannon. His influence on the Church of Ireland was considerable, not so much for the originality as the blatancy of his views. He was strongly anti-Catholic. He died 30th April 1859, and was buried at Chapelizod, near Dublin. He was the author of numerous works, the principal of which were: Captain Rock Detected (1824), Guide to an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion (1833), Case of the Protestants in Ireland Stated , etc. This work is a reply to Thomas Moore's Memoirs of Captain Rock, 1824. Attributed to O'Sullivan by Goldsmiths' Library. Includes bibliographical references.
SHIRLEY FAMILY COPY 298. OTWAY, Caesar A Tour in Connaught: Comprising sketches of Clonmacnoise, Joyce Country, and Achill. With illustrations engraved on wood. Dublin: Curry, 1839. pp. xii, 442, 5 (Curry's List). Blind stamped cloth. Armorial bookplate of Shirley of Ettington Park Manor and signature of Eliza Shirley on half-title. A very good copy. Scarce. €395
Rev. Caesar Otway (1780-1842) was born in Tipperary and educated at T.C.D. He became a Church of Ireland chaplain, and with Joseph Henderson Singer founded the Christian Examiner and Church of Ireland Magazine in 1825 and edited it for the following six years. With George Petrie he founded the Dublin Penny Journal in 1832 and wrote under the name of 'Terence O'Toole', beside his more frequent pseudonym 'O.C.' He was the author of three valuable and now scarce travel books "written in a kindly and cheerful spirit, with a keen appreciation of the picturesque; and depict a condition of things now almost past away".
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De Búrca Ra re Books MARIA EDGEWORTH'S COPY 299. OTWAY, Caesar. Sketches in Erris and Tyrawly. With a map and other illustrations. Dublin: Curry, 1841. pp. xvi, 418. Olive green cloth, title in gilt on spine which has been professionally rebacked. Presentation copy from William Curry, the publisher, to Miss [Maria] Edgeworth, dated June 3rd, 1841. A very good copy. Very scarce. €675 300. OWEN, D.J.A Short History of the Port of Belfast. With numerous maps and illustrations. Belfast: Mayne, 1917. Royal octavo. pp. xi, 96. Brown cloth, title in gilt on rebacked spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €65 301. PARSONS, Sir William. & BORLASE, Sir John. A Proclamation Published by The Lords Justices and Councell of Ireland to Annul and make Void all Protections Unduly Granted to the Rebels by Certaine Commissioners in Divers Counties in Ulster, &c. contrary to their Instructions and the Intention of the State. London: Printed at Dublin by William Bladen, and now reprinted at London for Edward Husbands, 1642. Quarto. pp. [i], 6. Royal arms printed on verso of titlepage. Recent half morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Exceedingly rare. €875 Wing I639. ESTC R5458 locates 1 copy only in Ireland. The 1st and only Wing printing although according to the titlepage it was originally printed in Dublin by William Bladen – 1639. Sir William Parsons, 1st Baronet of Bellamont (1570-1650), was one of the Lord Justices of Ireland in 1640. He also served as Surveyor General of Ireland and Member of Parliament for Wicklow. He settled in Ireland about the close of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, being a commissioner of plantations, obtained very considerable territorial grants from the crown. In 1602, Parsons as Surveyor General of Ireland; in 1610 he obtained a pension of £30 (English) per annum for life. In 1611, he was joined with his younger brother Laurence in the supervisorship of the crown lands, with a fee of £60 per annum for life. In 1620, Parsons personally presenting to King James I surveys of escheated estates, in his capacity of Surveyor-General, he received the honour of knighthood, and was created a baronet on 10 November in the same year. He continued in the government until 1643, when he was removed, charged with treason, and committed to prison, with Sir Adam Loftus and others. He died in Westminster in February 1650, at the age of 80. Parsons was succeeded by his grandson Sir William, 2nd Baronet. This pamphlet is a response to the proposed visit to Ireland by Charles I.
302. PENDER, Seamus. Ed. by. Council Books of the Corporation of Waterford, 1662-1700, together with nine documents of 1580-82. Dublin: S.O., 1964. pp. xvi, 498. Buckram. Fine. €95 Most of the seventeenth century records of the Corporation have disappeared. This work is of primary historical importance as a source for Waterford research. They give accounts of the election of mayors, sheriffs, and other officers, control of guilds, granting of leases, provision of local currency, the raising of loans, and the care of the poor and sick, etc.
303. PHELAN, Rev. William. & O'SULLIVAN, Rev. Mortimer. A Digest of the Evidence taken before Select Committees of the two Houses of Parliament, appointed to inquire into the State of Ireland; 1824-1825: with notes historical and explanatory, and a copious index. Dublin: R. Milliken, 1826. pp. viii, 303. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. Ex lib. with stamp and owner's inscription. Light foxing to prelims. All edges sprinkled. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €375 COPAC locates the Oxford copy only. Not in Bradshaw or Gilbert. Lough Fea 239.
304. PLUNKET, Hon. David. The Life, Letters, and Speeches of Lord Plunket. With an introductory preface by Lord Brougham. Two volumes in one. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1867. pp. (1) xii, 410, (2) viii, 380. Publisher's blind-stamp cloth, title in gilt on rebacked spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €175 William Conyngham Plunket (1764-1864), born in Enniskillen and educated at TCD. He was called to the bar in 1787, defended Henry Sheares in 1798; a strong advocate against the union; prosecuted Emmet after his abortive uprising in 1803. He was MP for various constituencies, including Dublin University. From 1822 to 1827 Plunket served a second term as Attorney-General. In 1827 he was appointed Chief Justice with a peerage and three years later became Lord Chancellor, an office from which he resigned in 1841. An important collection of letters covering one of the most momentous periods in Irish history. 92
De Búrca Ra re Books 305. POWER, Rev. P. The Place-Names of Decies. With maps. London: David Nutt, 57-59, Long Acre, 1907. First edition. pp xxvii, 503. Quarter green morocco on green ribbed cloth. Wear to spine ends and joints, otherwise a good copy. Rare. €275 Covering the Baronies of Gaultier, Slieveardagh, Glenahiery and others. With indices on Parishes, Townlands, Irish Names and Historic Persons and Events.
306. POWER, Patrick C. Carrick-on-Suir and its People. Illustrated. Dun Laoghaire: Anna Livia Books, 1976. pp. [x], 180. Blue arlin, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. €65 307. [PRESENT STATE] The Present State of Ireland: together With some Remarques Upon the Antient State thereof. Likewise a Description of the Chief Towns: With a Map of the Kingdome. London: Printed by M.D. for Chr. Wilkinson, at the Black-Boy in Fleet Street, 1673. pp. [xxiv], 280, 3 (list of books). With 2 final advertisement leaves; the last 2 leaves are blank. Modern full calf in seventeenth century style. Neat library stamp of Henry Thomas Coghlan on titlepage. A fine copy. Very rare. €2,250 Wing P 3267 Sweeney 3515. ESTC R26213.
THE REBELS OF ANTRIM, ARMAGH, DOWN, FERMANAGH, DONEGAL & TYRONE. 308. PRESTON, Jenico, Viscount Gormanston. The Copy of a Letter written from the Lo. Viscount of Gormanston unto Sir Phelim O Neal. Which letter is all written by the Lord Gormanston's own hand, and was found in Sir Phelim O Neal's cloakbag, when on the 16 of June, 1642, the said Sir Phelim, Rorymac Gwyre, some o the mac Mahowns, the mac Genises, and mac Cartan, the O Cahans, Coll Kittagh, mac Donells sons, and the rest of the rebels gathered from the severall counties of Tyrone, Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh and Donegall. And also some out of the English pale, being in all 6000 foot and 500 horse were defeated in battle by Sir William Stewart, and by Sir Robert Stewart, with part of their two regiments, three hundred of Colonell Gore's regiment, four companies from the Derry, and Captain Dudley Phillips with his troop of 60 horse, in all not exceeding 2000 foot, and 300 horse. Whereunto is added Sir Robert Stewarts letter to the right honourable Sir John Borlase knight, one of the Lords Justices for the Government of the Kingdome of Ireland. Imprinted first at Dublin, and now Reprinted at London for Benjamin Allen dwelling in Popes-head Alley, July 15. 1642. Quarto. pp. 8. Recent half blue morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €1,450 Sweeney 3517. Wing G 1303. ESTC R1227 locates 1 in Ireland, 4 in the UK and 1 in North America. The letter said to be in Viscount Gormanston's own hand was found in Sir Phelim O'Neill's cloak bag after he had been defeated at Culmore by a smaller army led by Sir William and Sir Robert Stewart.
309. PRIOR, James Esq. Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke; with specimens of his poetry and letters, and an Estimate of His Genius and Talents ... . Second edition, enlarged to two volumes. With engraved portrait. London: Baldwin, 1826. pp. (1) xxxii, 519, (2) iv, 548. Cont. half morocco on marbled boards. Name clipped from front endpaper. Previous owner's bookplate and signature. Fine. €175 A POEM IN EIGHTEEN PARTS 310. QUINN, Malachy. That Poor Devil Eire [De Valera] and Some Slight Protuberances. Poems by Malachy Quinn. Drawings by Jean-Louis Badet. California, Torrance: Hors Commerce Press, 1968. Quarto. pp. [42]. Printed in red and black. Limited to 300 numbered copies. Printed stiff green wrappers, label pasted on upper cover. A very good copy. €275 93
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See items 310 & 311 311. [READING BOOK] First Reading Book for the use of Schools. Printed and Published under the direction of the Commissioners of National Education, Ireland. And Sold to Pupils of National Schools, at one half-penny, bound in cloth. Dublin: John Falconer, 1871. pp. 64. Original worn cloth, some thumbing. A well used copy. Very rare. €125 312. REDMOND, John. M.P. Speeches by John E. Redmond, M.P. London: Fisher Unwin, 1910. pp. 8, 16, 12, [1], 20, [1], 20, 100. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Signed by W. A. Redmond and dated 1908, on front end paper. A very good copy. Very rare. €475 John Redmond (1856-1918) politician, was born at Ballytrant, County Wexford and educated at Clongowes Wood and Trinity College, Dublin. He was M.P. for New Ross in 1881. Redmond was the leader of the minority which supported Parnell during the split of 1890. As M.P. for Waterford he led the Parnellite remnant of the party. With the reunification of the Irish party in 1900 Redmond was accepted as leader, but was unable to retain the support of some of the old anti-Parnellites. He continued to press for concessions for Ireland until the time came to raise the Home Rule question. Asquith and the Liberals needed Irish support to secure the Parliament Act of 1911 (which removed the power from the House of Lords to defeat a Bill outright) in return for the (third) Home Rule Bill introduced in 1912. Unionist opposition to Home Rule constituted a serious threat. Redmond rejected partition as did the Unionists, who were finally prepared to accept a measure of permanent exclusion from Home Rule, but Redmond would concede nothing more than temporary exclusion. William Archer Redmond was the son of John Redmond and was an Irish Parliamentary Party MP. Speeches are: Ireland and the Coronation, 9th August, 1902; Failure of British Government, 4th February, 1904; Financial Relations, 26th January, 1905; Irish Problem, 19th January, 1906; Irish Government, 12th February, 1907; Arguments for Home Rule, Autumn, 1907. The contents includes: Ireland and the Coronation Why Ireland is Discontented; The Failure of British Government in Ireland; Ireland's Financial Relations with England; The Irish Problem Speech; Irish Government Speech; Some Arguments for Home Rule.
313. RENEHAN, V. Rev. L.F Collections of Irish Church History. Edited by the Rev. D. McCarthy. Volume I, Irish Archbishops [all published]. Dublin: Warren, 1861. pp. xiii, 522. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards. Badge of Maynooth College in gilt on upper cover. Occasional mild foxing. A Very good copy. €65 314. [REPEAL ASSOCIATION] Membership Card for Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland, 1844. In Manuscript. 'Mr. James Rice having enrolled 20 Repealers' was admitted as a member of the Association on the 9th day of December 1844, printed signature of Thos. Matw. Ray, Secretary. With an engraving of the Old Irish House of Parliament, surmounted by a 94
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shamrock with the legend Catholic Dissenter Protestant / Quis Separabit. With historical commentary on two columns and also on verso. Some wear, otherwise a good copy of an extremely rare item. €265 The Repeal Association was a mass membership political movement set up by Daniel O'Connell in 1840 to campaign for a repeal of the Act of Union. The Association's aim was to revert Ireland to the constitutional position briefly achieved by Henry Grattan and his patriots in the Irish Parliament of the 1780s.
315. RODEN, The Earl of. Tollymore. The Story of an Irish Demesne. Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2002. Quarto. pp. xii, 193, [1]. Green paper boards, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €50 316. ROOPER, George. A Month in Mayo, comprising Characteristic Sketches (sporting and social) of Irish Life; with Miscellaneous Papers. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1876. pp. vii, 175, [8]. Green gilt decorated cloth. New front endpapers. A few ink marks to corner of upper cover otherwise a very good copy. Rare. €475
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317. ROS, Mrs. Amanda M'Kittrick. Irene Iddesleigh. Belfast: Printed by W. & G. Baird, 1897. First edition. pp. 189, + errata. Red cloth with title and floral device in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signatures and bookplate on front endpaper. A very good copy. €125 NSTC 0649836. Anna Margaret Ross (née McKittrick; 1860-1939), known by her pen-name Amanda McKittrick Ros, was a Northern Irish writer. She published her first novel Irene Iddesleigh at her own expense in 1897. She wrote poetry and a number of novels. Her works were not read widely, and her eccentric, overwritten, "purple" circumlocutory writing style is alleged by some critics to be some of the worst prose and poetry ever written. The first edition in a variant binding. Also issued in grey, pale blue and blue green cloth.
318. ROTHE, David. The Analecta of David Rothe, Bishop of Ossory. Edited with introduction by Patrick F. Moran, Bishop of Ossory. Dublin: Gill, 1884. pp. cxxxv, 608. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Light foxing to prelims. Top edge uncut. New endpapers. A very good copy. €95 The Analecta of David Rothe, is the most valuable contemporary account that has come down to us relating to the struggle of the Irish Catholics during the reigns of Elizabeth and James the First. There is also a detailed study of Dermod O'Hurley, Richard Creagh and Cornelius O'Devany in the introduction.
319. LATIMER, Joseph. R.I.C. The "Harp and Crown". Verses and Poems. Belfast: Printed at the 'Belfast News-Letter', 1896. pp. xvi, 195, x, (appendix), 5 (adverts). Green cloth boards, crown surmounted by a harp and title in gilt on upper cover. Owner's bookplate and signature on half-title. Some wear to extremities, otherwise a good copy. Exceedingly rare. €125 No copy located on COPAC.
SIGNED COMPLIMENTARY COPY FROM THE AUTHOR 320. RUSSELL, Charles. "New Views on Ireland". Or, Irish Land: Grievances: Remedies. London: Macmillan, 1880. Third edition. pp. xvi, 246, 48 (publisher's list). Signed and dated complimentary copy from the author. New endpapers. Cloth a little faded. Very good. €165 The Irish Land Question with detailed examination of conditions at Killarney, Cahirciveen, Trinity College Estate, Valentia, Kenmare, Lansdowne Estate, Iveragh Estate of Lord Lansdowne, etc. The author, later Lord Russell of Killowen, born at Newry, became a distinguished solicitor and barrister. He was Parnell's counsel at 'The Times' Enquiry, and later was the first Catholic to be appointed Lord Chief Justice.
321. RYVES, Sir Thomas. The Poore Vicars Plea. Declaring, that a competencie of meanes is due to them out of the Tithes of their severall Parishes, notwithstanding the impropriations. Written by Thomas Ryves, Dr. of the Civile Lawes. London: Printed by John Bill, 1620. Small quarto. pp. [vi], 152. Recent quarter morocco on marble boards, title in gilt along spine. Woodcut royal arms of James I with initials IR and mottos "Honi soit qui mal y pense" and "Dieu et mon droit" on titlepage verso. Titlepage ornament; head and tail- pieces, initials and printed marginalia. Unobtrusive water stain to first two leaves, paper repair to some pages, paper flaw on final leaf with minute loss of text. A very good copy of a rare book. €950 Sweeney 4563. ESTC S116301. Sir Thomas Ryves (1583-1652), member of a distinguished Dorsetshire family, became one of the foremost English experts on Ecclesiastical and Admiralty law. He was born around 1583, eighth son of 96
De Búrca Ra re Books John Ryves and Elizabeth Mervyn. He belonged to a gifted family: one brother Sir William Ryves became Attorney General for Ireland and a High Court judge; another George, became Master of New College, Oxford. Dr. Bruno Ryves, Royal Chaplain and Dean of Windsor was a first cousin; and Sir John Davies, William Ryves' predecessor as Irish Attorney General was a connection through his wife. He entered Winchester College in 1590 and became a fellow of New College, Oxford in 1598. He took his degree of Bachelor of Common Law in 1605 and his doctorate in 1610; he is also said to have studied for a considerable time in France. Thomas and his brother William relied largely on their connection with Sir John Davies to advance their careers. In 1612 Thomas accompanied Davies on his return to Ireland and did "good service" in helping him manage the Irish Parliament of 1613, where after a fierce struggle Davies was elected Speaker of the House of Commons. In 1617 Thomas became Judge of the Irish Court of Faculties, but became embroiled in a long dispute with James Ussher and other leading clerics who argued that only a cleric should hold the office. After falling out with Archbishop Ussher who had questioned his honesty, Ryves attempted to restore good relations by this book which offers a justification for clerical tithes. Although Thomas is said to have been greatly respected in Ireland for his legal ability, he eventually resigned the office and returned to England in 1621. Ryves soon built up a large practice in the English Admiralty Court, and was made King's Advocate in 1625. In 1626 he became a master of the Court of Requests; in 1636 he became the Admiralty Judge for Dover, and later Judge for the Cinque Ports. On the outbreak of the English Civil War he joined the King, and despite his age is said to have fought with great courage in several battles and been wounded. In 1648 the King chose him as one of his commissioners to negotiate with Parliament. He died in London early in 1652 and was buried in St. Clement Danes.
FOR THE CHILDREN OF DUBLIN'S POOR 322. [SAINT ULTAN] Leabhar Ultáin. The Book of Saint Ultan. A collection of pictures and poems by Irish artists and writers, compiled and arranged by Katherine MacCormack with numerous illustrations. Dublin: Candle Press, 1920. Quarto. pp. 32, 8 (plates). Illustrated stiff wrappers. Repair to upper cover. A very good copy of a most attractive book. €475 Designed and printed under the direction of Colm O Lochlainn, and sold for the benefit of St. Ultan's hospital by Martin Lester (pseud. Bulmer Hobson) Ltd. With eight tipped-in plates by Jack B. Yeats, A.E., Paul Henry, Grace Henry, Patrick Tuohy, Cecil Salkeld, etc., illustrations in text by Maud Gonne, Evelyn Gleeson, Lily Williams, Beatrice Elvery, poems by An Craoibhín (Douglas Hyde), Susan L. Mitchell, Nancy Campbell, Seumas O'Sullivan, Beatrice Elvery, Joseph Campbell, Alice Milligan, Nell Byrne, Thomas Bodkin, Geraldine Plunkett, and Katherine MacCormack. St. Ultan's, in Charlemont Street, Dublin, was the hospital opened in 1919 and founded by Dr. Kathleen Lynn, to cater for the children of Dublin's poor. Kathleen Florence Lynn (1874-1955) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician, activist and medical doctor. She was born in Mullafarry, County Mayo, to a Dublin Church of Ireland family and educated in England and Germany before graduating as a doctor in 1899 from the Royal University of Ireland. An active suffragette, labour activist and nationalist, Lynn was a member of the Irish Citizen Army and chief medical officer during the 1916 Easter Rising. For her part in the rising she was imprisoned in Kilmainham Gaol, with her friends Constance Markievicz, Madeline ffrench-Mullen and Helena Moloney. In 1923 Lynn was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála for the Dublin County constituency at the 1923 general election. She lost her seat at the June 1927 general election. Lynn's medical career was defined by her work at Saint Ultan's Hospital for Infants, which she established in Dublin in 1919, with a group of female activists. Colm Ó Lochlainn was on the organising committee. Lynn's work with Dublin's inner city poor had convinced her of the need for a hospital to provide medical and educational facilities for impoverished mothers and infants. Earlier in her career Lynn has experienced discrimination in applying for hospital position due to her gender, and Saint Ultan's was the only hospital in Ireland entirely managed by women. Saint Ultan's Hospital grew rapidly, and from 1937 became the centre for BCG vaccination in Ireland. The hospital closed in 1984. Lynn lived in Rathmines from 1903 to her death in 1955, sharing her home with her friend and confidante Madeline ffrench-Mullen. She died in September 1955, and is buried in the family plot at Deansgrange Cemetery. In acknowledgement of the role she played in the 1916 Rising and the Irish War of Independence, she was buried with full military honours. Lynn's personal diaries for the period 1916-1955, and the administrative papers of Saint Ultan's Hospital are held by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland archive. 97
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THE RARE FIRST EDITION 323. SCALE, Bernard. An Hibernian Atlas; or general description of the Kingdom of Ireland: Divided into Provinces; with its sub-divisions of Counties, Baronies etc. Showing the Boundaries, Extent, Soil, Produce, Contents, Measure, Members of Parliament, and Number of Inhabitants; also the Cities, Boroughs, Villages, Mountains, Bogs, Lakes, Rivers, and Natural Curiosities together with the Great and Bye Post Roads. With map of Ireland, the Provinces and 98
De Búrca Ra re Books Counties beautifully engraved on copper plates and hand coloured. London: Printed for Robert Sayer and John Bennet, Map and Printsellers, No. 53 Fleet Street; and may be had of the Author, at his House in Dublin, 1776. Quarto. Contemporary full calf, spine expertly rebacked with original red morocco letterpiece. A fine copy of the rare first edition. €3,750
This edition not in Bradshaw. Bernard Scalè (fl. 1756-1780), surveyor and topographer, dominated a school of land surveyors in mideighteenth century Ireland. He was brother-in-law and pupil of John Rocque, whom he assisted in the surveys for the Maps of Dublin City and its environs published in 1756. He practised as a land surveyor in Abbey Street, and issued a number of maps and some views of Dublin buildings. Chubb described his magnum opus as: "A beautifully prepared atlas, containing thirty-seven finely engraved maps of the provinces and counties of Ireland. Each map is preceded by an engraved plate of letter press giving a description of the county or province ... The compass indicators, on the maps, are of a highly decorative character ...". 99
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324. SCOTT, C. W. History of the Fastnet Rock Lighthouses. Illustrated with thirty-five Reproductions of Photographs. To which are appended thirty-four plates of reduced copies of working drawings. Drawn up by desire of the Commissioners of Irish Lights by C.W. Scott. Ballydehob: Schull Books, 1993. Quarto. pp. [vi], 56, 34 (plates). Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Edition limited to 500 copies. A very good copy. €75 Originally published for the Commissioners of Irish Lights in 1906.
325. SCOTT, Rebecca. Echoes from Tyrconnel: a Collection of Legendary and other Poems. By Rebecca Scott, Castlefin. Londonderry : [J. Colhoun], 1880. 16mo. pp. 215. Brown pictorial cloth over bevelled boards, fading to corners. Owner's signature on half title. A clean copy. €175 COPAC locates 5 copies only. NSTC 0683500.
TRINITY COLLEGE PRIZE BINDING 326. SCOTT, Walter Esq. The Lay of The Last Minstrel, A Poem; by Walter Scott, Esq. London: Printed for Longman ... and Orme. By James Ballantyne & Co. Edinburgh, 1806, Fourth edition. Contemporary full brown worn calf, title in gilt on black morocco labels on spine. Trinity College Prize Binding with their badge in gilt on both covers. Premium label on front pastedown awarded to Edward Hasard in 1828. Some wear to spine ends, joints and corners. A very good example. €75 327. SCULLY, Denys. An Irish Catholic's Advice to his Brethren, how to estimate their present situation, and repel French Invasion, Civil Wars, and Slavery. Dublin: Printed by H. Fitzpatrick, 4, Capel-Street, 1804. pp. xliv, 72. Green pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine. All edges gilt. Some marginal corrections in ink possibly by the author. Some foxing to prelims., otherwise a very good copy. €275 Denys Scully (1773-1830), political writer and champion of Catholic emancipation, was the eldest surviving son of James Scully, a landed proprietor of Kilfeacle, County Tipperary, and his wife Catherine Lyons, of Croome House, Limerick. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1794, and seems to have 100
De Búrca Ra re Books been the second Catholic student admitted for two hundred years. After a short residence he left without graduating, and studied for the Irish bar, of which he became a member in 1796. He practised on the Leinster circuit with very successful until delicate health compelled him to retire. He became known as one of the leading Catholic agitators, and joined the important deputation which was appointed in February 1805 to wait upon Pitt with a petition to the House of Commons for emancipation. Pitt declined to present the petition, but Fox and Granville consented, and laid it before the house on 25 March. Scully prepared a famous Statement of the Penal Laws, which appeared in 1812, and resulted in the prosecution of the printer, Hugh Fitzpatrick, who was fined £200 and imprisoned for eighteen months. During the French wars Denys Scully served in the Lawyers' Corps of Yeomanry. He was critical of the rebellion of Robert Emmet and published this pamphlet urging his fellow countrymen to oppose the French.
328. [SCULLY, Denis] Ireland's Grievances, Political and Statistical. Containing No. I. Lists of Absentees formed at different periods; Peers and Commoners now resident in Dublin, and those who were resident at the period of the Union. No. II. Peculiar causes relating to Ireland, which produce Absenteeism; Laws against Absentees; arguments for and against these Laws. No. III. Sketch of the various insurrections, with a review of the calumnies and misrepresentations of Factious writers. No. IV. History of the Treaty of Limerick; Articles of the Treaty; Arguments of Sir Theobold Butler, and others, against their violation. No. V. Famine of 1822, intended to show how much we are the "Envy of surrounding Nations, and admiration of the World". To which is added Mr. Scully's celebrated Statement of the Penal Laws : Published first in 1812 by H. Fitzpatrick. Dublin: Printed by M. Staunton, Editor of the 'Evening Herald', for C.J. Wilkinson, Limerick, 1824. 12mo. pp. [iv], 349. Contemporary half calf on worn marbled boards. Spine expertly rebacked. Neat stamp of the Vincentian Order on front endpaper. Small split to joint of upper cover, repair to top margin of first leaf, one word shaved from page two. A very good copy. €295 AUTHOR'S COPY WITH ANNOTATIONS 329. SCULLY, Vincent. Free Trade in Land Explained. With debenture map of Great Mantlehill, County Tipperary. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, Grafton Street, 1854. pp. 60. Green pebbled cloth, covers framed by triple gilt fillets, title in gilt on spine. Author's pencil annotations to margin and lower pastedown, also with some corrections. All edges gilt. A fine copy. €475 Vincent Scully (1810-1871), barrister, landowner, banker, and politician, was the second son of Denys Scully and his second wife, Katherine, daughter of Vincent Eyre of Highfield and Newholt, Derbyshire. A leading Catholic advocate, he was educated at Oscott, Trinity College, Dublin, and Trinity College, Cambridge, but did not graduate at either university. He was one of the editors of the Oscotian (from 1826). In 1833 he was called to the bar, and speedily obtained a good practice. In 1840 he became a Queen's counsel. He was elected M.P. for Cork in 1852, and remained its member until 1857. He was re-elected in 1859 and sat till 1865. Vincent Scully was the author of some important pamphlets on the Irish land question.
330. SECKER, Thomas. Lectures on the Catechism of the Church of England: with a discourse on Confirmation. Published from the Original Manuscripts by Beilby Porteus and George Stinton. Dublin: William Watson, 1806. 12mo. pp. [4], 379. Contemporary full worn calf. Signature of Elizabeth Longfield on titlepage. Signature of J. Conner of Manch on front pastedown. A good copy. Extremely rare. €575 COPAC locates the BL copy only. This edition not in NLI.
331. SENIOR, Nassau William. Journals, Conversations and Essays Relating to Ireland. Two volumes. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1868. pp. (1) xix, 313, (2) 318. Green cloth, title in gilt on rebacked spines. Stamp of Rotherham Book Society on titlepage, with withdrawn stamp on verso. A very good set. €375 Nassau William Senior, the first professor of Political Economy at Oxford visited Ireland on numerous occasions over the period 1819 to his last visit in 1862. Born in 1790, he was the son of a vicar and the eldest of ten children. Educated at Eton and Magdalen, Oxford, he qualified as a barrister but soon turned to political economy - apparently he was much impressed by the evils of misdirected charity in his father's parish and resolved to reform the English poor law system. 101
De Búrca Ra re Books In 1862 his daughter published some of his Irish material in Journals, Conversations and Essays relating to Ireland. Included in this work are accounts of visits to Ireland in 1852, 1858 and 1862 including on each occasion, visits to Lord Rosse at Birr Castle (the astronomer third Earl). Senior writes in an introduction to the essays he had prepared in 1861: "Though the aspect of Ireland is somewhat changed since 1852, and much since 1844, I doubt whether any great real alteration in the habits to feelings of the people has taken place. They still depend mainly on the potato. They still depend rather on the occupation of land, than on the wages of labour. They still erect for themselves the hovels in which they dwell. They are still eager to subdivide and to sublet. They are still the tools of their priests, and the priests are still ignorant of the economical laws on which the welfare of the labouring classes depends. They are still the promoters of early and improvident marriages; they still neglect to preach to their flocks the prudence, parsimony, industry, cleanliness, and other self-regarding virtues, on which health and comfort depend; they are still the enemies of emigration; they are still the enemies of every improving landlord; they are still hostile to a Government which has seized the property of their Church - which refuses, or at least neglects, to provide for the spiritual instruction of the great mass of the people, and everywhere, except in its workhouses and in its gaols, ignores the existence of a Roman Catholic clergy". Nassau Senior was as critical of the Catholic Clergy as he was of the Established Church in a country where the vast majority were Catholic. In his views he anticipated Disestablishment in 1869. In his journal he records the conversations with the owners of land, "They tell us what is the conduct which our Irish tenant approves - what he will tolerate, what he will resent, and what he will punish".
EXCEEDINGLY RARE CORK PRINTING 332. SERVETUS, Michael [BLAIR, Patrick] Thoughts on Nature and Religion : Or, An Apology for the Right of Private Judgment, Maintained. By Michael Servetus, M.D. In his answer to John Calvin. [Cork]: Printed by Phineas Bagnell and Company, 1774. pp. [iv], 183, [1]. Contemporary full calf. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands flanked by double gilt fillets, title in gilt on black morocco letterpiece on spine. From the library of Richard Meade of Ballymartle with his armorial bookplate. Surface wear to covers. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €575 ESTC T103774 locates 4 copies only.
333. [SEWARD, William] Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons: chiefly of the present and two preceding centuries. In two volumes. Dublin: Printed by William Porter, for P. Byrne, (No. 108) Grafton Street, 1796. Third edition. pp. (1) [ii], viii, 432, (2) [ii], viii, 463. Contemporary full tree calf, contrasting labels. Interesting book label. Some wear to head and tail of spines, otherwise a very good set. Rare. €375 ESTC T213195 locates 5 copies only. See opposite.
HEATHENS OF INISKEA 334. SHAND, Alexander Innes. Letters from The West of Ireland 1884. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1885. pp. viii, 227, 4. Blue decorated cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Minor wear, otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce. €575 Alexander Innes Shand (1832-1907) was a Scottish barrister and author, critic, biographer, novelist and travel writer. As a correspondent for The Times he toured the western sea-coast counties of Ireland in 1884, during the height of the Land War. Starting at Buncrana on August 21, he travelled through Donegal, Lough Erne, Sligo, Ballina, Westport, Croagh Patrick, Achill Island, Cong, Joyce Country, Connemara, Lough Corrib, Galway, Limerick, Kerry, and after one month ends up at Bantry. He gives us a graphic description along his route of the destitution of the tenantry; evictions; angling at Gweedore; beauties of Lough Gill; the heathens of Iniskea; emigration from Mayo; murders in Joyce Country; antiquities of Athenry; fishing on the Shannon; sport at Mucross; wayside beggars; an enterprising railway, etc.
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De Búrca Ra re Books 335. SHAW, Bernard. Flyleaves. Edited with an introduction by Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary. Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1977. Quarto. pp. 62. Reddish brown cloth. Title on printed label on spine. Edition limited to 350 copies. A fine copy. €250 GUIDE BOOK FOR TOURISTS AND ANGLERS 336. SHEERIN, J.J. Picturesque Carrick-on-Shannon. The Gateway to the West and Donegal Highlands. Attractions of Leitrim and North Roscommon. With introduction by M.J. MacManus. Longford: Longford Printing & Publishing, [1938]. pp. 88. Illustrated stapled wrappers. A very good copy. Very scarce. €95 337. SHIRLEY, Evelyn Philip. The History of the County of Monaghan. With coloured frontispiece and other illustrations including genealogical tables. Bangor: Paddy O'D Fox, 1988. Second edition. Folio. pp. xvi, 619. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. Fine. Scarce. €150
338. SOMERVILLE, E. OE. & ROSS, Martin. Stray-Aways. With thirty-four illustrations by E. OE. Somerville. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920. First edition. pp. xii, 280. Recent cloth with original laid on. A very good copy. See illustration below. €45
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De Búrca Ra re Books 339. SOMERVILLE, Edith OE & ROSS, Martin. Through Connemara in a Governess Cart. Illustrated by W.W. Russell, from Sketches by Edith OE Somerville. London: Allen, 1893. First edition. pp. viii, 200. Publisher's pictorial rush-green cloth. New front endpaper, name clipped from top of titlepage. Some minor spotting, two corners bumped. a very good copy. €235 Hudson 7. Edith Anna Oenone Somerville, author, artist, organist, feminist, inspiring leader and farmer was born in Corfu in 1858 and grew up at Drishane the seat of the Somerville family in Castletownshend, County Cork. Through her mother she was descended from Chief Justice Charles Kendal Bushe, this eminent lawyer was the great-grandfather of Edith and of her cousin and co-author Violet Florence Martin of Ross, County Galway, better known under the pen-name of Martin Ross. On the 17 January 1886 Edith first met Violet and from that moment their literary partnership began and continued until Violet's death in 1915. Edith although deeply saddened by the death of her beloved partner continued to write until the end of her own life insisting subsequent titles were jointly written. For her massive contribution to literature, in 1932 Trinity College conferred on her an honorary Litt.D. The Mistress of Drishane died in 1949. This book although dated 1893, was in fact published in November 1892, having been in the previous year serialised in The Ladies Pictorial.
340. SPICER-SIMSON, Theodore. Men of Letters of the British Isles. By Theodore SpicerSimpson. With critical essays by Stuart P. Sherman and a preface by G.F. Hill. Illustrated. New York: William Edward Rudge, 1924. Small folio. pp. [2], 124. With half-title and titlepage vignette. Quarter cream linen on brown paper boards, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Edition limited to 520 copies on Rives paper. A fine copy. €145 Celebrities portrayed includes: Arnold Bennett, J.D. Beresford, Laurence Binyon, Robert Bridges, G.K. Chesterton, Padraic Colum, Joseph Conrad, William H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, Charles M. Doughty, John Drinkwater, Lord Dunsany, St. John Ervine, John Galsworthy, Thomas Hardy, Ralph Hodgson, A.E. Housman, W.H. Hudson, Douglas Hyde, James Joyce, John Masefield, George Meredith, Sir Henry Newbolt, George Russell A.E., George Bernard Shaw, James Stephens, Hugh Walpole, H.G. Wells, and W.B. Yeats. Plates in sepia photogravure, each with facing tissue guard.
341. STEELE, Seamus. Ed. by. Antrim's Patriot Dead 1797- 1953. Illustrated. Belfast: National Graves, n.d. (c.1953). pp. 76. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Scarce. €75 The contents includes biographical details of noble patriot citizen-soldiers of the Irish Republic from the County of Antrim, who gave their service, and their lives to the cause of Ireland's unity. Covering the period from 1798 to 1946 there are thirty-five patriots listed including: William Orr, Henry Joy McCracken, Willie Nelson, Rody McCorly, Bartholomew Teeling, William Harbinson, Charlie Monaghan, Roger Casement, Duffin Brothers, Sean McCartney, Fred Fox, Seamus and Charles McAllister, Joseph McKelvey, Joseph Malone, Gerard O'Callaghan, Sean McCaughey, etc.
342. STEWART, S.A. & CORRY, T.H. A Flora of the North-East of Ireland. Including the Phanerogamia, the Cryptogamia Vascularia, and the Muscineae. Cambridge: Macmillan & Bowes for the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, 1888. pp. xxxvi, 331. Green cloth over bevelled boards, title and 'Rosa Hibernica' in gilt on upper cover. Top edge gilt. Fine. Scarce. €225 343. [STRABANE] Strabane, County Tyrone. The Official Guide. With illustrations, map and numerous adverts. Cheltenham: Burrow, n.d. (c.1931). pp. 24. Ex. library with stamps. Illustrated stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €25 344. STRADLING, Matthew [M.F. MAHOMY]. The Irish Bar Sinister. New edition in four chapters. London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1872. pp. 136. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €185 COPAC locates 1 copy only. Martin Francis Mahony (1831-1885) was born in Cork, the eldest son of Martin Augustus Mahony and Elizabeth Ronayne and nephew of Francis Sylvester Mahony [Father Prout]. This work is a non-fictional attack on the Irish legal establishment.
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See items 342 & 344 345. [STUART, Francis] A Festschrift for Francis Stuart on his Seventieth birthday 28 April 1972. Frontispiece. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1972. Folio. pp. 62, [2]. Stiff white paper wrappers. Edition limited to 1,000 copies. A fine copy in printed dust jacket. €65 Miller 190. Commemoration of the distinguished Irish writer, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. The contributors, under the editorship of W.J. MacCormack, were: Hugh Maxton, Compton Mackenzie, John Jordan, Serge Radine, Olivia Manning, Bertrand d'Astorg, Roger McHugh, Joseph Holloway and Thomas McIntyre.
346. STUART, James. Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh. New edition revised, corrected and largely re-written by Rev. Ambrose Coleman. With maps and illustrations. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, Gill, 1900. Quarto. pp. xxiv, 477. Maroon ribbed cloth, title in gilt on spine, arms in gilt on upper cover. A very good copy. €65 James Stuart (1764-1842) historian, was born in Armagh and educated at Armagh Royal School and T.C.D. Although called to the bar he never practised. Stuart was the first editor of the Newry Telegraph and between 1815 and 1819 also edited the Newry Magazine. In 1827 he founded and edited the Guardian and Constitutional Advocate, but ill health forced him to abandon it.
347. SULLIVAN, Mr. Serjeant. K.C. What Every Irishman Should Know. Something to think about. Dublin: Corrigan, n.d. pp. 12. Printed stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €75 INCUMBERED ESTATES COURT 348. [SYNGE & HAMILTON ESTATE] Sale on Tuesday, the 10th day of December, 1850. In the Matter of the Estate of Francis Synge, of Glanmore Castle, in the County of Wicklow, Esquire, Owner; Charles Hamilton, Esquire, Petitioner. Rental and Particulars of several Very Valuable and Desirables Estates, Farms and Lands, in the County of Wicklow, which will be Sold by Auction in Six Lots by the Court of the Commissioners for the Sale of Incumbered Estates in Ireland. Dublin: Clarke, 1850. Oblong quarto, folded. pp. 14, 5 (folding maps). Quarter stitched linen on printed paper wrappers. Some fraying to fore-edges, otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce. €475 105
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The six lots included the lands of Glassnamullen; Roundwood; One Undivided Moiety of the Lands of Tomriland; Ballycullen and Aghoule Upper and Lower; Part of Teiglin, Ballymorroghroe, Ballinasse, Clorah, Ballynahinch; Plot on Murrow of Wicklow. The timber on the estate was valued at £20,000. The Synge family fortune derived from John Hatch, son of Sir William Temple's agent who massed estates in Wicklow, Meath and Dublin. Glanmore Castle, a 4,000-acre estate in County Wicklow incorporating Roundwood Park, was built by John Hatch's son-in-law Francis Synge, whose son John Hatch Synge (grandfather of the playwright, John Millington Synge) was known as "Pestalozzi John" after the Italian educationalist whose method he followed in the estate school, incorporating its own printing-press for pedagogical materials. The family estate in Wicklow was lost by his son (also John), under the terms of the Encumbered Estates Act of 1848 but partially repurchased at auction in 1850, by his brother, Francis Synge, and hence re-established Glanmore Castle as the family seat. Both brothers were members of the Plymouth Brethren. With copious lists of tenant's names and their holdings.
349. SYNGE, J.M. The Autobiography of J.M. Synge. Constructed from the Manuscripts by Alan Price with Fourteen Photographs by J.M. Synge and an Essay on Synge and the Photography of His Time by P.J. Pocock. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1965. First edition. pp. 46. Title in red and black. Limited edition. Quarter vellum parchment on boards with Synge's monogram in gilt on upper cover. Fine in slipcase. €275 Miller 81.
ILLUSTRATED BY LOUIS LE BROCQUY 350. SYNGE, J.M. The Playboy of the Western World. A comedy in three acts. Edited by Stanley Sultan, with six brush drawings printed in colour by Louis le Brocquy. Massachusetts: Imprint Society, 1970. Folio. pp. 132. Yellow buckram, gilt decorated. Edition limited to 1,950 copies. Signed by the editor Stanley Sultan and the artist Louis le Brocquy. Fine. €675 John Millington Synge (1871-1909), playwright, was born in Rathfarnham, County Dublin and educated at Trinity College where he won prizes in Irish and Hebrew. He studied at the R.I.A.M. and became proficient on the piano, violin and flute. Turning to literature he settled in Paris where he met W.B. Yeats, who advised him to return to the Aran Islands and write about the way of life there. By 1905, his plays In the Shadow of the Glen, Riders to the Sea and The Well of Saints had been performed in the Abbey, and Synge became the leading playwright of the literary revival. When the Abbey Theatre opened in December 1904, Synge became literary advisor and later a director with W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory. His great comedy, The Playboy of the Western World, now a 106
De Búrca Ra re Books classic of the Irish theatre, caused a riot on its first Abbey production in 1907. Undeterred, Yeats put on The Tinker's Wedding shortly afterwards. In the same year The Aran Islands (illustrated by Jack B. Yeats) was published. His last and unfinished play, Deirdre of the Sorrows, was said to have been inspired by his love for the actress Molly Allgood (Maire O'Neill), who played Pegeen Mike in The Playboy. Suffering from Hodgkin's disease, he died unmarried, on 24 March, 1909. Ironically Synge never saw his collected works in print. They were first published by Maunsel in 1910. Fine American edition, printed by Dolmen but never published here. Very scarce.
PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE PUBLISHER TO HARRY CLARKE 351. TCHEKHOV, Anton. The Bet and Other Stories. Translated by S. Koteliansky and J.M. Murry. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1915. pp. viii, 244, [4]. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Modern Russian Library in blind on upper cover. Inscribed by Harry Clarke 'Harry Clarke / from / George Roberts / Dec. 1915' on front endpaper. A very good copy. €275 "The output of English translations of Russian literature continues apace, and The Bet and other stories .. is a specimen of the work at its best. The translation is very good. It reads like English, yet it maintains the Russian atmosphere. ... And it need hardly be pointed out now how exquisite an artist is Tchekov in his elusive 'static' manner. ... He draws you, gently but irresistibly, right into the heart of the matter, and takes you captive with a motion of the finger" - Times Literary Supplement.
WOBURN ABBEY COPY 352. TEMPLE, John. The Irish Rebellion: or, An History of the Beginnings and First Progress of the General Rebellion raised within the Kingdom of Ireland : upon the Three and twentieth day of October, in the Year, 1641. Together with the Barbarous Cruelties and Bloody Massacres which ensure thereupon. Written and published in the year 1646, by Sir John Temple, Knight, Master of the Rolles, and one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Councel within the Kingdom of Ireland. And now reprinted by the desire of very many friends. London: Printed by A[nne]. M[axwell]. and R[obert]. R[oberts]. for Edw. Gellibrand, at the Golden-Ball in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1679. 16mo. pp. [30], 333, [1]. Contemporary full panelled calf, spine professionally rebacked. Armorial shield of Russell, Duke of Bedford in gilt on both covers, with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Minor wear to corners, some occasional browning, otherwise a very nice fresh copy. €575 Wing T629. ESTC R28196. Sweeney 5026 records the first edition.
353. TIGHE-BUNBURY, Daniel. Esq. The Will of Daniel Tighe-Bunbury of Rossanagh in the County of Wicklow, dated 2nd of January 1870. Proved in common form in the Probate Court in Dublin by his second son, late Lieut. Col. James Stuart Tighe of Rossanagh one of the executors and beneficiary of the estate. Large quarto manuscript copy, consisting of two pages tied with silk ribbon and folded. In very good condition. €125 354. [TIGHE FAMILY] Draft Pedigree of Alderman Richard Tighe and his Descendants 16731826. Titled Brown & Tighe Draft Pedigree. Carlow copy, March 27, 1835. Four page foolscap folded. With tears. Together with Deed dated the 6th September 1928, amending the Trusts of the Deed of Family Settlement: Wilfred Tighe of Rossanagh, Lucy Emily Tighe, Daniel Charles 107
De Búrca Ra re Books Frederick Tighe of The Cottage, Rathnew, John Ralph Coote of Strathmore Hotel, Plymouth and Charles Herbert Tighe of Ballinapark, Rathnew. Large quarto copy document. €125 355. [TIPPERARY] The Official Guide to Tipperary. With map, illustrations and numerous adverts. Cheltenham: Burrow, n.d. (c.1927). pp. 32. Ex. library with stamps. Illustrated stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €20 356. [TONE, Theobald Wolfe] Belmont Castle: or, Suffering Sensibility. Theobald Wolfe Tone & Divers Hands. Edited by Marion Deane. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1998. Second edition. pp. [6], 141. Illustrated wrappers. Some underlining, otherwise fine. €35 Among the possessions seized from Theobald Wolfe Tone upon his arrest in 1798 were two copies of Belmont Castle, the epistolary novel he wrote and published with his friends Richard Jebb and John Radcliffe in 1790. Much more than a mere literary squib, Belmont Castle is an elaborate 'roman-à-clef', satirizing the lives of several prominent figures of the Anglo-Irish establishment and redressing a painful love affair from Tone's past. Written in a style that mocks the popular sentimental picture of the period, Belmont Castle gives us a xenophobic Lord Charlemont, a foppish Sir Thomas Goold, a socialclimbing William 'Index' Ball and 'Humanity' Dick Martin as one of several villains in a frothy tale of love and intrigue, abductions and duels, dances and dandies, blushing bells and charging rams in a tour de force of scholarly recovery, Marion Deane's introduction and annotations guide us through a labyrinth of truth, half-truth and innuendo. She shows that Tone composed more than half of the novel, and that the love affairs at the centre of the plot are based on Tone's own infatuation with Lady Elizabeth Vesey, and on Lady Vesey's subsequent celebrated adultery and elopement with a Mr. Petrie. Belmont Castle is at once an amusing mock-Gothic novel and a fascinating historical document, shedding new light on the lives of the great and the good of Anglo-Irish Dublin in the period of Grattan's parliament, and on Tone himself in the years before he embraced revolutionary politics.
357. TORDELLO, Arcangelo. The Pope's Cabinet Unlocked: or, A Catalogue of all the Popes Indulgences belonging to the order of S. Mary : together with a List of all the Indulgences daily, yearly, and forever, to be had at Rome, S. James of Galatia in Compostella, Jerusalem, and all places in the Holy Land. Written in Italian by Fr. Ancangelo Tortello, of the said order of S. Mary: and now translated into English by John Sidway, late Seminary Priest, but now of the Reformed Religion, and Vicar of selling in Kent, and one of the discoverers of the horrid Popish Plot, with the cause of his conversion. Whereunto is added an appendix by the translator, in which the grounds and foundation of the said indulgences being examined, are utterly overthrown, and by consequence indulgences themselves apparently proved to be mere cheats. And also shewing that the Church of Rome doth lay the chief basis of their religion on indulgences. Dedicated to the right honourable the Earl of Shaftsbury. London: Printed for Isaac Cleave at the Star next to Serjeants108
De Búrca Ra re Books Inn in Chancery-Lane, 1680. Quarto. pp. [8], 72, 74-77 p., [1] engraved plate. Recent half calf on marbled boards. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €475 COPAC locates the BL copy only. Not in NLI. Wing T1943aA. Remarkable and scarce work by a converted Irish Jesuit, replete with a delightful frontispiece: Pope Innocent XI, surrounded by his Cardinals, is told by the Devil lurking behind his shoulder: "our disignes in England are discovered therefore I come to give you advise: you must not Spare for Indulgences". The Pope meanwhile advises the Jesuit missionary to England Thomas Whitebread: "noe matter for confience [belief] Soe you fill my Coffers", as Whitebread charges "the penitent" 50d for his absolution. The text is prefaced by a dedication to the Earl of Shaftesbury and an address from Sidway to his "Curious Reader"; Shaftesbury was a vehement anti-Catholic and at the apex of his powers at the time, being imprisoned himself in 1681 for treason. John Sidway was born in Dublin and educated by the Jesuits in Bologna, he rose to become sub-deacon in the Church of Rome under the Grand Duke of Tuscany. At one point, on the pretext of a trip to Lyon, he dressed in lay clothing and stole away to Geneva to behold Protestantism with his own eyes; what he observed apparently confirmed his deep-rooted suspicions of the Roman faith. Sent to England as a missionary, he seems to have converted around 1677. We subsequently find a petition from him, imprisoned in the Gate-House in 1679, in the Records of the Parliamentary Office. Kenyon's The Popish Plot mentions Sidway only in passing, in 1679, as Parliament appealed to the public for evidence of the Plot, they "could only attract one new informer, Sidway, who wildly accused the Bishops of Bath and Wells, Ely, and Gloucester of being in league with Cardinal Howard, and was promptly and predictably locked in the Tower". He was presumably freed in time to write the present work, but in 1681 was deprived of his office as vicar for not possessing a certificate attesting to the Act of Uniformity.
358. [TRAVELLERS NEW GUIDE] The Traveller's New Guide Through Ireland. Containing, A New and Accurate Description of the Roads, with Particulars of all the different Towns - Villages Noblemen and Gentlemen's Seats Churches - Monastic Buildings Antiquities and Natural Curiosities:- Also, The Present State of Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce; With a Complete List of all the Fairs Throughout the Kingdom. Illustrated with a new and accurate Map of Ireland; Plan of the Lakes of Killarney - Views of the Giant's Causeway - Waterfall at Powerscourt Delineations of the Principal Post-Roads With other plates. Dublin: John Cumming, 1815. pp. 4, 574. Contemporary half morocco on marbled boards. Minor spotting. A very good copy. Scarce. €475 COPAC gives 8 locations. With two engraved plates, twelve maps (2 folding).
359. [TREATY] What the Treaty Means. National Series, no. 1. Published by the 'Republic of Ireland'. Dublin: n.d. (c. 1922). pp 12. Paper wrappers, title printed on upper cover. A very good copy. €145 Careful analysis standpoint.
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De Búrca Ra re Books EXCEEDINGLY RARE SHANNON ITEM 360. TRENCH, Henry. Shannon Floods. Lough Derg Level. The 25 Miles from Killaloe. 1897. Illustrated with double-page map and seven coloured lithograph plates. Belfast: Privately printed by Marcus Ward for Henry Trench, [1897]. Quarto. pp. 14. Quarter red linen on printed grey paper boards. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €1,250
No copy located on COPAC. The author states: " The following Lithographs are intended to shew that the Weir Mound at Killaloe, an obstruction placed there for navigation purposes, is at present the only cause of chronic danger to Meadows and Hay, rendering them liable to be flooded, even in summer, after two or three days' heavy rain. The disastrous flood of this year was caused by rainfall in the week ending September 8. If this obstruction had not been there, the water of the Lough would have been made considerably lower during the summer by means of the natural channel, so that the heavy rain in September would not have flooded the Meadows". - Henry Trench, Cangort Park, Roscrea. 8th December, 1879.
361. TREVELYAN, George Otto. The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Two volumes. London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1876. pp. (1) xi, [1], 475 (2) viii, 480. With a half-title page in each volume. Contemporary full polished calf over bevelled boards. Covers framed by a gilt Greek roll enclosing in the centre the gilt badge of The Royal School of Armagh. Spines divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and volume numbers on contrasting red and green morocco labels; fore-edge and turn-ins gilt; comb-marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. A fine set. €275 George Otto Trevelyan (1838-1928) Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1882 to 1884, having succeeded the assassinated Lord Frederick Cavendish.
362. TYNAN, Katherine [Mrs. Hinkson]. The Land of Mist and Mountain. London: Catholic Truth Society, [1895]. Slim 16mo. pp. 197, [3]. Recent green cloth, with original pictorial cloth from upper cover laid on. Very good. Very rare. €65 NSTC 0763167. Loeber T.151. Short sketches of Irish life. The contents includes: The Emigrant; A Saint; A Poor Little Thing; An Exile's Return; A Prodigal; Two Exiles; Jimmy of the Birds; A Long Quest. 110
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See items 361 & 363 363. TYNAN, Patrick J. The Irish National Invincibles and Their Times. English edition, with appendices and index. Illustrated. London: Chatham, 1896. pp. xxxi, 591, + addendum. Red cloth, title in black on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. €250 The 'Invincibles' were an extremist organisation in Ireland during the Land War. They were terrorists who assassinated the Police Chief, John Mallon, the Chief Secretaries, Forster and Cavendish and Under-Secretary Burke. They were opposed by the Fenians for their extremist activities. Following the trial and execution of five of their members for the Phoenix Park murders the organisation disappeared.
364. USSHER, James. An Answer to a Challenge made by a Jesuite in Ireland. Wherein the Judgement of Antiquity in the points questioned is truly delivered, and the Noveltie of the now Romish Doctrine plainely discovered. By James Ussher, Bishop of Meath. London: Printed for the Society of Stationers, 1625. Small quarto. pp. [24], 527, [1], 7 (Catalogue of the Authors). Contemporary full sprinkled calf, spine professionally rebacked. Some early marginalia and signature of Richard Barton on final leaf. Also with signature of Jonas Blaymires on titlepage. Slight wear, wanting part of the letterpiece. A nice copy. Scarce. €675 ESTC S118934. Sweeney 5323 quoting the Dublin 1st edition (1624). James Ussher was born in the parish of St. Nicholas, in the city of Dublin, on the 4th of January, 15801, fifth among ten children of Arland Ussher, Clerk of Chancery, and his wife Margaret Stanihurst. He was the second student admitted to Trinity College, when its doors opened in 1593. He had a great interest in religion and his loyalties were divided between the Reformed and Catholic Faiths. His uncle Stanyhurst tried to attract him towards Catholicism which he had adopted, but Ussher's leanings were towards Anglicanism which he followed. His contacts with recusant scholars were extensive and reciprocal. They included his uncle Richard Stanihurst, whose Brevis praemunitio pro futura concertatione cum Jacobo Usserio (Douay, 1615) was directed against his nephew. He also exchanged information with Bishop David Rothe of Ossory, author of the Analecta sacra nova . . . in Hibernia, the 111
De Búrca Ra re Books Jesuit William Malone, and the Franciscans Thomas Strange, Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, and Luke Wadding. In this way the vigorously catholic Louvain school made use of Ussher's private library, and in return he had indirect access to manuscript sources in the Vatican library. Through Conall Mageoghegan of Westmeath he was able to consult vital sources such as the Book of Lecan and of Book of Ballymote. This world, in which the participants dealt with each other in terms of mutual respect, was a hidden one. It functioned through codenames and intermediaries and occasionally broke down under the strains created by politics and polemical print. So while Ussher's dealings with learned Catholics extended over the three decades from the 1610s onwards, his first two publications as Bishop of Meath were detailed ripostes to Roman claims of superior antiquity After their victory at Kinsale in 1601, the English Army generously gave the enormous sum of £1,800.00 for the purchase of a library for Trinity College. Ussher had the delightful task of going to London to purchase the books. In 1612 he took the degree of Doctor of Divinity and in the following year published his first work Gravissimae Quaestiones de Christianorum which he dedicated to James I. In 1621 he was appointed Bishop of Meath, he was a regular visitor to London and favourite of the King, who before his death appointed him to the Archbishopric of Armagh. His residence at that time was in a house at Drogheda (where he kept his books including, the great masterpiece of Celtic illuminative art The Book of Kells) or Termonfeckin in County Louth. He was strongly opposed to Bishop Bedell's efforts in revving the Irish language and to granting Catholics any toleration. He died at Ryegate in Surrey in 1656. He was a prolific writer both in Latin and the English language. His biographer Dr. Elrington states "The works which he had published sufficiently attest the stupendous extent of his information, and the skill with which he could make use of the treasures he possessed". His name became celebrated throughout Europe, and his services to the cause of literature, more especially in the departments of history and chronology, have been acknowledged by all modern writers.
365. VERIDICUS [Sir Richard Musgrave] A Concise Account of the Material Events and Atrocities which Occurred in the Late Rebellion, with the Causes that Produced them; and an answer to Veritas's Vindication of the Roman Catholic Clergy of the Town of Wexford. By Veridicus. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. Dublin: Printed for J. Milliken, 32 Grafton Street; And J. Wright, 169 Piccadilly, 1799. pp. [iii], 101. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. Some foxing to titlepage, otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce. €285 ESTC T72775. Sir Richard Musgrave (1746?-1818), 1st Baronet, political writer, was born at Lismore, County Waterford, the first of three sons of Christopher Musgrave of Tourin, near Cappoquin, local agent to the Duke of Devonshire. Educated at Oriel College, he was later called to the Irish bar. Through the Duke's influence he entered the Irish House of Commons as a member for Lismore in 1778, retaining his seat until the abolition of the Irish Parliament by the Act of Union. Although Musgrave's associations were with the Whigs until 1797, he was fiercely independent and privately was deeply hostile to the Catholics. This hostility may have been a consequence of his experiences as high sheriff of County Waterford in 1786 when Whiteboyism was rising there. Attracted to the Orange Order, by 1798 he was Orange grandmaster of the County. The 1798 rebellion and attempted French invasion prompted Musgrave, under the pseudonym 'Veridicus', to bring out two more pamphlets, To the Magistrates, Militia and the Yeomanry of Ireland and the present work. The primary purpose of this pamphlet was to vindicate the Protestants; two revised, expanded editions followed in the same year. Musgrave was a man of considerable talent, warped by blind prejudice and savage party spirit. Though strongly attached to the English connection, he was no less strongly opposed to the Act of Union, and never sat in the imperial parliament. He died at his house in Holles Street, Dublin, in 1818. He was married to Deborah, daughter of Sir Henry Cavendish, Bart., of Doveridge Hall, Derbyshire, by whom he had no issue.
366. VIEYRA, Antonio. A New Portuguese Grammar in four parts : Containing I. Rules for the Modification and Use of the different Parts of Speech. II. The Syntax, in which are explained, after a more copious manner than hitherto attempted, the peculiar uses of the Portuguese particles. III. A Vocabulary, more particularly containing the terms of commerce, war, and navigation, with a variety of phrases and familiar dialogues, taken from common conversation, and the best authors. IV. Various passages extracted from the most approved modern and ancient writers, with a view to facilitate the reading of the ancient and most valuable Portuguese books. The second edition. By Anthony Vieyra Transtagano, teacher of the Portuguese and Italian 112
De Búrca Ra re Books languages. London: Printed for J. Nourse, Bookseller to His Majesty, 1777. pp. vi, [2], 376. Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Some wear to corners and spine. All edges green. A very good copy. Scarce. €265 ESTC T11543.
SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 367. [WADDINGTON, Victor] Twelve Irish Artists. With an introduction by Thomas Bodkin. With 12 mounted coloured plates. Dublin: Printed at the Sign of the Three Candles, 1940. Large folio. Printed on antique paper. Bound in quarter burgundy morocco on grey linen boards, with title in gilt on burgundy letterpiece on upper cover. Edition limited to 125 copies, signed and numbered by Colm Ó Lochlainn. Signed presentation copy from Victor Waddington to Andrew Devereux "but for who this Publication would not be what it is" dated September 1940 on Victor Waddington Publications headed paper, 19 Nassau Street, Dublin, pasted on front endpaper. On front and rear pastedowns are pasted reviews of this publication from the Irish Times, Irish Press, Independent and Evening Mail. A very good copy of this exceedingly rare item. €485
De Búrca 122. Dr. Thomas Bodkin in his introduction states: "The nation that neglects to display, through the minds and hands of our artists, the emotions, the ideals, and the aspirations that animate its people is unworthy of the name", certainly this publication put paid to that. Undoubtedly this was at that time the most influential Irish art book ever published. It contains examples of the work of J. Humbert Craig, William Connor, Grace Henry, Paul Henry, Sean Keating, Harry Kernoff, Charles Lamb, Maurice 113
De Búrca Ra re Books MacGonigal, Frank McKelvey, Dermod O'Brien, Sean O'Sullivan, and Leo Whelan. The Times stated that "An Irish art dealer and an Irish printer have combined to publish an 'anthology' of modern Irish art which would do credit to any country". Andrew Devereux was a Three Candles employee.
368. WAKEMAN, William F. Archaeologia Hibernica. A Hand-Book of Irish Antiquities, Pagan and Christian. Especially of such as are easy of access from the Irish Metropolis. Second edition. With numerous illustrations. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and London: Simpkin, 1891. pp. xx, 322, 7 (Publisher's List). Original green cloth over bevelled boards, Celtic Cross in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Randolph Berens' copy with his bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy. €75 369. WALKER, Dorothy. Louis le Brocquy. With an introduction by John Russell. Profusely illustrated with colour and mono plates. Dublin: Ward River Press, 1981. Quarto. pp. 157. Black cloth, image by le Brocquy in silver on upper cover. Title in silver on spine. A fine copy in fine dust wrappers. €45 370. WALKER, George. A True Account of the Siege of London-Derry. By the Reverend Mr. George Walker, Rector of Donoghmoore in the County of Tirone, and late Governour of Derry in Ireland London: Printed for Robert Clavel, and Ralph Simpson, in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1689. Quarto. pp. 59, [1]. Title page with advertisement at foot. Very good in recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. €875 Wing W 350. Sweeney 5468. Sir George Walker (c.1618-1690) was an English soldier and Anglican priest, known as the Defender of Londonderry. He was joint was joint Governor of Londonderry along with Robert Lundy during the Siege in 1689. He was killed at the Battle of the Boyne on 1 July 1690, going to the aid of Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg, Commander-in-Chief of all Williamite forces in Ireland, who was wounded during the crossing of the river in the early part of the battle. A legendary description of this dramatic siege by the prime mover in the action. It evoked much controversy, with the Presbyterian participants in the defence feeling that their contribution to the final victory had not been given due credit and the absence of the names of the ministers is noteworthy. After the dedication to William and Mary, there follows a two page description of the city and its defences. The ensuing diary contains some splendid set-pieces even if one's credulity is stretched at times. An example of the good and the bad: "July 2. The enemy drive the poor protestants, according to their threatening, under our walls, protected and unprotected, and under great distress. Our men at first did not understand the meaning of such a crowd, but fearing they might be enemies fired upon them; we were troubled when we found the mistake, but it supported us to a great degree, when we found that none of them were touch'd by our shot, which by direction of Providence (as if every bullet had its commission on what to do) spared them and found out and kill'd three of the enemy, that were some of those that drove the poor people into so great a danger. There were some thousands of them, and they did move great passion in us, but warm'd us with new rage and fury against the enemy, so that in sight of their camp, we immediately erected a gallows and signified to them we were resolved to hang their friends, that were our prisoners, if they did not suffer these poor people to return to their own houses".
371. WALLACE, Lew. An Finn-Dia. ("The Fair God"). Mícheál Ó Gríobhtha d'aistrigh. Baile Átha Cliath: S.O., 1935. pp. 723. Blue cloth, title in black on upper cover and spine. A very good copy in frayed illustrated dust jacket. €35 372. WALPOLE, E.H. Mount Usher 1868-1952. A short history of the origin and development of the gardens. With articles by Sir F.W. Moore, J.W. Besant, G.C. Taylor and L. Roper. Illustrated with tipped-in plates. Dundalk: Dundalgan, n.d. [1952]. Quarto. pp. 75. Quarter linen on grey boards with illustration of the house, inset on upper cover. A very good copy. Very scares. €75 Mount Usher is a famous William Robinson garden, built up over many generations by the Walpole family, whose great enthusiasm made Mount Usher one of the greatest of all Irish gardens, comprising over 4,000 different species of plants. In Irish Gardens Edward Hyams wrote this perfect summary of the qualities of the gardens: "I consider the garden of Mount Usher Mill to be the most perfect example of the romantic, paradise, Robinsonian garden ... it is entirely successful in combining plantsmanship in which such gardens excel ... which idealises to perfection a possible natural world". 114
De Búrca Ra re Books 373. WALSH, Maurice. Thomasheen James, Man-of-no-Work. London: W. & R. Chambers, 1941. First edition. pp. 352. Cream cloth, title in green on spine. A very good copy in rare illustrated dust jacket. €45 374. WALSH, Peter A Prospect of The State of Ireland from The Year of the World 1756 to The Year of Christ 1652. Written by P.W. London: Printed for Johanna Broom at the Gun in St. Pauls Church-Yard, 1682. 16mo. pp. [lxviii], 504, [vi]. Contemporary full calf. Spine expertly rebacked with new red morocco letterpiece. Minor foxing to endpapers. A fine copy. €685 Wing W 640. Sweeney 5523. ESTC R34713. Peter Walsh, D.D. was born near Naas, County Kildare c.1618. He was educated at the Irish College at Louvain. Joined the Franciscan Order and was later Professor of Divinity at Louvain. He returned to Ireland in 1646, the following year he attacked in nine consecutive sermons the Disputatio Apologetica of Cornelius Mahony, in which the rights of the kings of England to Ireland was denied. As a consequence of his conduct Walsh was deprived of the lectureship in divinity to which he had been appointed at Kilkenny. He was driven from the house, and even forbidden to enter any town which possessed a library. Rinuccini accused him of having affected the nobility of Ireland and destroyed the cause. He also afterwards described him as "turned out of his convent for disobedience to superiors, a sacrilegious profaner of the pulpit in Kilkenny cathedral, who vomited forth in one hour more filth (sordes) and blasphemy than Luther and Calvin together in three years". Walsh sided with Ormond and wrote against the Papal Nuncio, which led to his excommunication. For his loyal services to Ormond he received a pension from the Government. He died in 1687 and is buried in St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, London. The Bishop of Salisbury said of him that "He was the honestest and learnedest man among them (Catholics), and was indeed in all points of controversy almost wholly a Protestant". In the dedication to Charles II Walsh declares himself an "unrepentant sinner", determined to die as he had lived, the King's "most loyal, most obedient, and most humble servant".
375. WALSH, Wendy & NELSON, Charles. An Irish Florilegium II. Wild and Garden Plants of Ireland. Watercolour Paintings by Wendy Walsh. Introduction and Notes on the Plates by Charles Nelson. Illustrated with 48 colour plates. London: Thames & Hudson, 2008. Large quarto. pp. 216. Brown cloth, titled in gilt. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Very scarce. €225 376. WANOSTROCHT, N. La Liturgie, ou Formulaire des Prières Publiques, selon l'usage de l'Église Anglicane. Par N. Wanostrocht. Dublin: Printed by William Porter, Grafton Street, 1803. 12mo. Contemporary full morocco decorated in gilt. Wear to joints and corners. Signature of Daniel Conner of Manch on front flyleaf; signature of H.P. Corry on titlepage. All edges gilt. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €385 COPAC locates the TCD copy only. NLI holds the Dix copy.
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De Búrca Ra re Books 377. WARREN, Geoffrey. Elixir of Life {Uisge Beatha}. Being a slight account of the romantic rise to fame of a great House [John Jameson]. Decorated by Harry Clarke. Dublin: John Jameson & Son Limited, 1925. Small quarto. pp. [iv], 17. Original quarter linen on lime green paper boards with original printed title. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €1,550
COPAC locates 2 copies only. Steenson A 7. Harry Clarke wrote in a letter presenting this work to a friend: "Here is one of the books I did for Jameson ... it was made in Dublin and if you have ever had any experience of Dublin printers you will know it was only produced with great difficulty". Published to promote the sale of John Jameson whiskey. The superb Clarge illustrations are pen and ink drawings blocked in with yellow. See also items 186 & 187.
ANTIQUE IRISH BROOCHES 378. [WATERHOUSE] Ornamental Irish antiquities, by Waterhouse and Company, Dublin. Second edition. Illustrated. Dublin: MacDonnell, 1853. pp. 22. Original printed wrappers bound in contemporary half cloth on marbled boards. Extremely rare. €275 COPAC locates 2 copies only. The appendix on the Harp of Brian Boroimhe is signed R. Ball, Dublin University Museum. Dedicated by permission to Her Excellency the Countess of Clarendon by Her Excellency's obliged and obedient servants, Waterhouse and Company. Additional note in red ink on the Galway Brooch.
379. WATT, J.A. MORALL, J.B. & MARTIN, F.X. Ed. by. Medieval Studies Presented to Aubrey Gwynn, S.J. Foreword by Michael Tierney (President U.C.D.). Illustrated with portrait frontispiece, folding map and plates. Dublin: Printed by Colm O Lochlainn at the Sign of the Three Candles, 1961. pp. xii, 509. Red paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €75 116
De Búrca Ra re Books Presented as a tribute to Rev. Prof. Aubrey Gwynn S.J. on his retirement as Professor of Medieval History. With various historical contributions by leading scholars of their day. In three parts, dealing with Ireland, England and Europe; and includes essays on Norman Monastic Foundations in Ireland; The Rebellious First Earl of Desmond; The English Bishops 1070-1532 and Pope Lucius III, and the Bigamous Archbishop of Palermo.
380. WELD, Isaac. Illustrations of the Scenery of Killarney and the Surrounding Country. With frontispiece, map, engraved title, one engraved folding plate and eighteen full page engravings. London: Longman, Hurst, 1812. pp. [i], vii, 293, [1]. Modern half calf on marbled boards. Usual foxing. A very attractive copy. €265 Isaac Weld (1774-1856), author, was born in Dublin and educated at Samuel Whyte's School, Grafton Street and in Norfolk. In 1795 he sailed for Philadelphia and spent two years travelling in America and Canada, and met George Washington. In 1799 he published Travels Through the States of North America and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada which went to three editions and was translated into French, German and Dutch. Weld visited Killarney and its lakes, and the present work is the result of that visit, illustrated with his own drawings. A member of the Royal Dublin Society from 1800, he undertook their Statistical Survey of Roscommon. Sir Isaac Weld was honorary secretary to the Society for over twenty years, and after his death its members erected a monument to him in Mount Jerome Cemetery. A beautiful series of views of one of Ireland's most scenic regions. Includes views of the lakes, the surrounding mountains as well as picturesque ruins and castles.
381. [WESTERN PRIEST] Who Abandoned the Republic ? By a Western Priest. Dublin: [1922]. pp. 16. Illustrated paper wrappers. A very good copy. €125 Not in Carty. COPAC locates 3 copies only.
EXCEEDINGLY RARE ONE OF SEVENTY COPIES 382. WILDE, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Woodcuts by Brian Lalor. London: Gerald Duckworth, 1997. pp. 95. Canary yellow buckram, title in black along spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Extremely rare. €275 According to John Boland "Brian Lalor tells me that the entire first printing of his illustrated edition of Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol ... was withdrawn and shredded by its London publisher, Gerald Duckworth, for reasons of quality control. Well, not entirely the entire print-run - about seventy copies escaped the shredder before the publisher got to them and were sold at the launch in Kilmainham Gaol on October 17th last [1997]". There was a second printing, identical to the pulped version, except that inside the black dust jacket common to both, the original as in this copy had a canary yellow cover, while the new printing is in sky-blue.
383. WILDE, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Grey. Paris: Charles Carrington, 1908. Copyright edition. pp. 312. Half vellum parchment on grey paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €1,250
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De Búrca Ra re Books 384. WILLIAMS, Alexander. Beautiful Ireland. Leinster, Ulster, Munster, Connaught. Painted by Alexander Williams. Described by Stephen Gwynn. Dublin: Gresham, n.d. pp. 64, 64, 62, 64. Near fine in decorated cloth. Rare in this condition. See illustration on previous page. €125 Alexander Williams RHA (1846-1930) is best remembered as a landscape and marine painter, but he was also an ornithologist and taxidermist of note and a professional singer. He was born at the house of his aunt in the Diamond, Monaghan town. His mother, Alice Williams had gone to visit her sister-inlaw, Anne Whitla. Both women were heavily pregnant and went into labour almost simultaneously, with the result that Alexander arrived just before midnight on April 21, 1846 and his first cousin early the following day. Family legend had it that, after the two babes had been placed on red plush cushions to be admired by one and all, their mothers reclaimed the wrong babes! If that was the case, then Alexander was the man who, as Robert Whitla, emigrated to North America to distinguish himself in the Canadian Rifles. Another first cousin was Sir William Whitla, physician and politician, after whom the Whitla Hall at Queen's University Belfast is named.
385. WILLS, James. A History of Ireland in the Lives of Irishmen. Embellished with plates. Six volumes. London & Edinburgh: Fullarton, n.d. (c.1847). Second edition. Bound by Archer of Belfast (ticket on lower pastedowns) in contemporary half green calf on cloth boards, title in gilt on brown morocco labels in the second compartment of spine, the remainder richly tooled in gilt. Ticket of Wm. Mullan, Bookseller, Belfast on front pastedowns. Wear to some spine ends, occasional foxing. A very good set. Extremely rare. €285 COPAC locates 3 sets only. Arranged in chronological order. Embodying a history of Ireland in the lives of illustrious Irishmen.
386. WINDELE, J. Historical and Descriptive Notices of the City of Cork and its vicinity; Gougan Barra, Glengarrif, and Killarney. Cork: Messrs. Bolster, 70 Patrick Street; John Cumming, Dublin; Longman and Company, London; Sold also, by all Booksellers in the United Kingdom, 1842. Second edition. pp. viii, 412. Later quarter pebbled cloth on linen boards. Label of Shandon Printing Works, Robert Street, Cork on front pastedown. Extra blank pages at end with photograph of John Windele, Abraham Abell and one other unidentified. Loosely inserted on The Grove House Hotel notepaper are historical notices on O'Mahony's castle. Owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy. Very scarce. €265 387. WINNE, J.H. A Compleat History of Ireland from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time; In which is contained a General Review of the Ancient Kings, &c. Embellished with several elegant Engravings. A new edition. Two volumes. London: Printed for W. Lane, 1774. pp. (1) xxxii, 480, 11 (index), (2) 372, 4 (index). Contemporary full calf. Spine expertly rebacked preserving original labels. Lacks map. Annotated. Some browning. An attractive copy. Very scarce. €275 The author was the son of a customs officer of Welsh extraction, who lived at Southampton. In 1756 he 118
De Búrca Ra re Books was apprenticed by his father to a printer. Afterwards he served in the East India Company, but he returned from India in 1761 and recommenced writing for periodicals of the day. Oliver Goldsmith is said to have recommended him to write the present work.
388. WOOD-MARTIN, W.G. Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland. A Folklore Sketch. A Handbook of Irish Pre-Christian Traditions. With numerous illustrations. Two volumes. New York: Kennikat Press, 1970. Reprint. pp. (1) xix, 405, (2) xv, 438. Green buckram, title in gilt on spine. A very good set. Very scarce. €95 The author states: "The interest of this branch of archaeological study arises from recognition of the fact that the present is the outcome of the past, and that an adequate apprehension of the past is necessary to the understanding of human life under present condition".
THREE WORKS IN ONE VOLUME 389. WRIGHT, G.N. The Rev. Tours in Ireland; or, Guides to the Lakes of Killarney; the County of Wicklow; and the Giants Causeway. Illustrated by maps; and engravings, after drawings by George Petrie, Esq. Three works in one volume. London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823. pp. (1) viii, 97, 2 (index), (2) x, 159, 8 (index and publisher's list), (3) viii, 134, 2 (index & errata). Contemporary full maroon morocco satchel style binding. Some rubbing to spine. Mild toning to plates. A very good copy. Very scarce. €475 George Newenham Wright, (c.1794-1877), Irish writer and Anglican clergyman, was born in Dublin, the son of John Thomas, a medical doctor. George graduated B.A. from Trinity College in 1814 and M.A. in 1817. He held several curacies in Ireland before moving to St. Mary Woolnoth in London. By 1851, he was a teacher of classics, resident in Windsor. In 1863 he was master of Tewkesbury grammar school. From the 1820s to the 1840s Wright published some topographical works and schoolbooks on subjects ranging from the Greek language to biography and philosophy. There were several books on Ireland, two of which have illustrations by George Petrie.
390. WRIGHT, Rev. G.N. Guide to the County of Wicklow. Illustrated with five engravings, and a large map of the county. New edition, corrected and enlarged. After the designs of George Petrie, Esq. Dublin: Curry, 1835. pp. [2], xi, 203, [5] (place names and index). Publisher's green cloth, title on worn printed label on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. €185 The superbly executed engravings are after the designs of George Petrie.
391. [WRIGHT, G.N.] Dublin Delineated in Twenty-six Views of the Principal Public Buildings, accompanied by concise descriptions of each; with An Itinerary, pointing out the leading streets, and principal objects of attraction. Dublin: Printed for G. Tyrrell, 11, Lower Sackville-St. and Sold by all Booksellers. n.d. (c.1837). pp. 56, 28 (plates). Original green pebbled cloth, title on printed label on upper cover. Spine neatly rebacked, new endpapers. Mild foxing to margin of some plates. A very good copy. €275
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De Búrca Ra re Books Copac locates the BL copy only. Most of the fine engraved plates are by George Petrie, and there are nine by W. H. Bartlett. There is also a folding plan of the city at end. This item actually contains 28 plates even though the list of plates printed in the book only mentions 26 plates, these extra plates are entitled: St. Peter's R.C. Chapel & Free Schools, Circular Road, Phibsborough and Terenure, County Dublin.
WATERFORD AUTHOR 392. WYSE, Thomas. Historical Sketch of the Late Catholic Association of Ireland. Two volumes. London: Colburn, 1829. pp. (1) viii, 435, (2) vi, 121, cccxlvii. Modern blue cloth. Mild foxing to prelims. A very good set. Very scarce. €275 This association was the last of a long line of movements which sought to secure Catholic Emancipation. Numerous previous associations were dissolved or harassed by the Government, the Catholic Board was dissolved in 1814 and was re-established in 1823 by Daniel O'Connell and Richard Lalor Shiel as the Catholic Association of Ireland. The author, Sir Thomas Wyse (1791-1862), a Liberal Politician and reformer, was born in Waterford and educated at Stonyhurst and Trinity College, Dublin, where he was one of the first Catholic students. After retiring to Waterford in 1825 he played a leading role in the campaign for Catholic Emancipation and wrote the present work a year after it was granted. He was later M.P. for Tipperary and supported the Reform Bill of 1832.
VICTOR WADDINGTON'S COPY 393. [YEATS, Jack B.] A Mainsail Haul by John Masefield. With frontispiece by Jack B. Yeats. Dublin: Elkin Mathews, 1905. 12mo. First edition. pp. 128. Green cloth, title in white on upper cover within a white ruled border. Victor Waddington's copy with his bookplate on front pastedown. Moderate wear to cover. A very good copy. €285
394. [YEATS, Jack B.] Now and Then. A Periodical Concerning Books and Authors Published Occasionally by Jonathan Cape from Thirty Bedford Square, London. Summer 1933, No. 45. London: Jonathan Cape, 1933. Crown octavo. pp. 47, [3]. Pictorial wrappers. A good copy. €65 Includes a self portrait by Jack B. Yeats and a review of 'Three Plays' by Ivor Brown: "Jack Yeats is no romantic; the first play in this volume is a bitter comedy about a bogus ghost; the second is a weird study of life by an Irish roadside ... the third, describes the efforts of a family who own a derelict wharf to sell it to a cinema-owner for development".
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De Búrca Ra re Books 395. YEATS, Jack B. The Charmed Life. London: George Routledge, 1938. First edition. pp. [v], 295, [4]. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €145 At the centre of this novel are two Irish tramps, very reminiscent of Becket's tramps in Waiting for Godot. Yeats has not yet achieved the critical regard he deserves'.
396. YEATS, Jack B. Ah Well. A Romance in Perpetuity. Frontispiece illustration by Jack B. Yeats. London: Routledge, 1942. First edition. pp. 90. Quarter black linen on paper boards. Some minor spotting. A fine copy. €65 397. YEATS, W.B. Cathleen Ni Houlihan. London: A.H. Bullen, 1906. pp. 16. Printed wrappers. Mild foxing. Very good. €20 398. YEATS, W.B. Last Poems and Two Plays. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1939. First edition. pp. [iv], 61. Quarter linen on blue paper boards, title in black on upper cover and on paper label on spine. Edition limited to 500 copies. A superb copy. €565 Wade 200.
399. YEATS, W.B. If I were Four-and-Twenty. Woodcut of unicorn by Edmund Dulac. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1940. First edition. pp. [iv], 68. Edition limited to 450 copies. Blue paper boards with buff linen spine, title printed in black on upper cover and on paper label on spine; blue endpapers matching binding. A fine copy. €295 Wade 205. Miller 65. This edition printed on paper made in Ireland by Esther Ryan and Marie Gill, was published by the Cuala Press, 133 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin. First publication in book form of essays written twenty years earlier.
400. [YEATS, William Butler] A Memorial Sermon Preached at Drumcliffe on the Occasion of the Centenary of the Birth of William Butler Yeats by the Bishop of Limerick The Right Reverend Robert Wyse Jackson 12 June 1965. Dublin: Dolmen Press. Sligo: Keohane, 1965. Folio. pp. 4. Printed in red and black. Edition limited to 1,000 copies. Fine in printed wrappers. Rare. €25 Miller 89 The only Dolmen publication to be published on a Sunday.
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An introduction to the Sweeney Collection of books, broadsides and pamphlets associated with Ireland 1475-1700.
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hose of us privileged to enjoy the late Tony Sweeney's wonderful Arranmore library of Early Modern Irish books, broadsides and pamphlets were well aware of the dedication, passion and commitment that lay behind its formation. We also knew that the collection he made was, incomparably, the finest such library in private hands. In fact, it is impossible to overestimate the significance of the Sweeney Arranmore collection for research into Early Modern Irish Studies. The books and pamphlets it contains constitute the most significant untapped resource of printed materials for research into sixteenth and seventeenth century Irish history, literature and civilization in the world.
Tony Sweeney’s passion for early modern books connected with Ireland, together with his prodigiously retentive mind for detail, made him not only a collector of the very best kind but also a great scholarly bibliographer. With prodigious energy and meticulous research over many years, he compiled his 1997 publication, Ireland and the Printed Word: a short descriptive catalogue of early books, pamphlets, newsletters and broadsides relating to Ireland,1475-1700. The work, that encompasses all printed material relating to Ireland, astonished scholars by its breadth of compass and the depth of its learning. Sweeney combined an enviable grasp of intellectual life in Early Modern Europe with a remarkable command of bibliographical detail, and identified nearly 6,000 items for this pioneering descriptive bibliography. The originality of his scholarship in this work was recognised by the National University of Ireland with the award of the degree of D.Litt. All bibliographers, the world over, now refer to Early Modern Irish books by their Sweeney number. Few works of scholarship have opened up research possibilities in Irish Studies so profoundly and in such an exciting way as did Tony Sweeney's Ireland and the Printed Word. The second of Tony's passions, as a collector of the books of the period, can be seen reflected in Ireland and the Printed Word, where he included a 'Collector's Guide', indicating whether a book was 'Findable' by a collector searching for it for three years, for five years, or for seven years: beyond this, Sweeney considered that a book was too rare find 'in commerce'. This is not to say that he himself might not spot a copy in some unexpected place and succeed in purchasing it. In fact, his own collection - built on the basis of a daily, forensic examination of the catalogues of every great antiquarian bookseller and auction house in the world, became legendary for its quality, its integrity and its originality. For Tony could spot literary and bibliographical connections missed by other scholars and could link publications, authors and editors with Ireland in a way no other scholar has ever attempted. He would go to enormous lengths - and spend large sums of money - to obtain the books and pamphlets he needed to make his collection as complete as it could be, driven by an insatiable desire to possess the best possible copy of every book or pamphlet that could be shown to have a connection to Ireland before 123
De BĂşrca Ra re Books 1700. He told me several times - when I was called to his house to be shown his latest acquisition - that one should always buy the best if one wanted to assemble the best of collections. The copies of Irish books Tony Sweeney purchased over the years were, quite simply, the best copies available in the world. They include, of course, superb incunables and other exceedingly rare finely printed early books. Professor Andrew Carpenter, Ph. D., University College Dublin, School of English.
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1. A., N. A true and perfect account of the discovery of a barbarous and bloody plot lately carried off by the Jesuites in Ireland for the destroying of the Duke of Ormond London: 1679. 4to. pp. [i], 5. A very good copy in modern half calf. The 1st of two Wing A 20. Very rare, no copy in Ireland. Letter dated January 10th relating how Joseph Jephson, whose father colonel Jephson had been executed in 1663 for a plot upon the life of James Butler, duke of Ormond and who had himself been reared a Protestant, was seduced by the Jesuits into converting to Catholicism with the promise of a young and rich wife. He was then told that he had to kill the duke “to assure her of the truth of his conversion”. Various plans were made, one of which was he should shoot “the duke out of a garret-window, as he went to attend service in Christ-Church. Sweeney 2 quotes the 1st Dublin edition
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De Búrca Ra re Books 2. An abridgment of the English military discipline. Printed by special command for the use if His Majesties forces. London: Printed by the assigns of John Bill, deceas'd: and by Henry Hills and Thomas Newcomb, printers to the Kings most excellent Majesty, 1685. 8vo. pp. 271, [1]. Titlepage with royal coat of arms. Old calf rebacked. A very good copy. Very scarce. Wing (2nd ed.), A105. ESTC R7189. 3. An account of the publick affairs in Ireland since the discovery of the late plot London: 1679. 4to. pp. [vi], 20. The 1st of two Wing A 376. Very rare. The period covered is October 14, 1678 to April 7, 1679. Offers reprints of a series of anti-catholic proclamations issued by the duke of Ormond in the wake of the “Popish Plot”. This followed his return “from a progress made by him into Munster, to view the forts and places fit for fortification; and in particular from seeing the new fort begun by his order the March preceding, for the defence of the harbour of Kinsale.” £5,000 had already been spent on this project. Sweeney 76 quoting the 1st Dublin edition. A very good copy in modern half calf. 4. [ALBEMARLE, George Monck Duke of] Observations upon Military & Political Affairs. Written by the Most Honourable George Duke of Albemarle, &c. Published by authority. London: 1671. pp. [viii], 151, [11]. From the library of Mark Dineley with his armorial bookplate. A fine copy in contemporary full calf, rebacked. Covers elaborately tooled in gilt to a floral panel design. Wing A 864. Exceedingly rare. COPAC locates 4 copies only. 5. [ANNESLEY, Arthur, 1st Earl of Anglesey.] England’s confusion: or, a true and impartial relation of the late traverses of state - London: 1659. 4to. pp. 24. A good copy stitched and housed in a quarter morocco binder's folder. Wing A 3167A. Anonymously published, the author is characterised as “one of the few English men that are left in England” although at that time he was the sitting member for Dublin in Richard Cromwell’s Parliament. He opens up with a violent onslaught on Oliver Cromwell’s “high hand of arbitrary power” and his ambition “to have continued his posterity in the same unlimited dominion; declaring .... his eldest son Richard his successor .... his son Henry Lord Lieutenant or Viceroy of Ireland, and his daughter [Bridget] Fleetwood married to the Commander in Chief under him of the army.” Arthur Annesley, a native of Dublin, was the fourth generation of the family to participate in Irish affairs. His great grandfather Sir John Perrot was lord deputy; his grandfather was an undertaker in the Plantation of Munster after the defeat of the earl of Desmond, and his father, Baron Mountnorris, a major player in the Plantation of Ulster. Taking the parliamentary side during the civil war, his major contribution was to foil a projected alliance between the marquis of Ormond and the Scots forces in Ulster under General Monroe. Arthur Annesley acted as an intermediary for Charles II after his appointment as president of the council of state. Following the Restoration, he became vice-treasurer and receiver-general for Ireland, 1660-1667. 343. A looking-glass for a Tory: or the bogg-trotters glory. To the tune of Hey boys up go we - London: 1682. Broadside. Wing L 3015. Sweeney 2891. No copy located on COPAC. Exceedingly rare. 126
A 17th-century London street ballad against the background of the “Popish Plot” but with verses such as the following that will strike an echo for those who relish their Percy French: “Oh Cram a Chree the times are hard, We know not how to live, If that our Oaths should be debarr’d And Pope no Money give, Why fait and trote dear Joy we must With our Potatoes play, And the English would preserve our dust The clean contrary way.” 344. KILKENNY, Irish Recorder of. The speech of the Irish reorder of Kilkenny to the late King James - London: 1689. Broadside. Wing S 4863B. ESTC R184517 locates 5 copies only. The explanation for such a whole hearted Jacobite peroration receiving a printer’s licence in London at this date is to be found in the threatening sentiments expressed near its conclusion: “The Sun has not seen us these three thousand years so united, as your Majesties concerns have at present knitted us: We are now one soul, one will, one hand, and one heart, and that one heart dances in your hand, command it to the East or West Indies, to the Northern or Southern Pole, we will march with the first beat of a drum; order us to attack your faithless Exeter, your revolting Plymouth, your fanatick Bristol, your deserting Chester, and your rebellious London: The first sound of the trumpet will find us ready to sail.” Sweeney 2667. 345. WILLIAM and MARY. The second declaration of .... to all the people of our Kingdom of Ireland, whom it may concern - Dublin: 1690. Wing W 2633. Steele (Ire) 1138. Broadside. The stick, as represented by the proclamation of July 7th, not having produced the desired the result, resort was had to the carrot directed at those who “have borne office under our enemies, whether military or civil .... if any of them shall .... surrender .... and be content during the rebellion in this kingdom to betake themselves to such town or city as shall be assign’d them, they shall be secure in their lives and have the liberty of such town and city; and if they are destitute and in want, shall also have a subsistence allowed them according to their respective qualities. This was to be paid by the Commissioners of Revenue.” Sweeney 4145. ESTC R226013 locates 5 copies only. We have included here the briefest listing of items from the Tony Sweeney Collection which we are endeavouring to sell as a single lot. For any interested parties please do not hesitate to contact us for an electronic or printed catalogue.
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De Búrca Ra re Books PRINCIPAL SOURCES CONSULTED BEST BLACK BONAR LAW BRADSHAW COPAC CRAIG CRAIG CRONE DE BURCA DIX D.I.B. D.N.B. ELLMAN ELMES & HEWSON E.S.T.C. FERGUSON, Paul GILBERT GILCHER HALKETT & LANG HERBERT HICKEY & DOHERTY HOGAN KELLY, James KENNEDY, Máire KEYNES KINANE KRESS LOEBER LYNAM McCREADY McDONNELL & HEALY McDONNELL McGEE McTERNAN MELVIN MILLER MUNTER N.S.T.C. NEWMAN O’DONOGHUE O’FARRELL O’HIGGINS O’REILLY PATERSON PHILLIPS POLLARD POLLARD PYLE SLATER SLOCUM & CAHOON STC SWEENEY WADE WALL WARE WEBB WIKIPEDIA WING WORLDCAT
Bibliography of Irish Philology & of Printed Irish Literature, 1913. Catalogue of Pamphlets on Economic Subjects 1750-1900 in Irish Libraries. The Printed Maps of Ireland 1612-1850, Dublin, 1997. Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books. 3 vols. 1916. Online Public Access Catalogue. Dublin 1660-1860. Irish Bookbinding. 1954. The Irish Book Lover. 1910 - 1952. Three Candles Bibliographical Catalogue. 1998. Early Printed Dublin Books, 1601-1700. New York, 1971. Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge, 2009. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography. 1973. James Joyce. Oxford, 1983. Catalogue of Irish Topographical Prints and Original Drawings, Dublin 1975. Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. Map Library, TCD. Catalogue of Books and Mss. in the library of Sir John Gilbert. A Bibliography of George Moore. A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain. Limerick Printers & Printing. 1942. A Dictionary of Irish History Since 1800. Dublin, 1980. Dictionary of Irish Literature. Dublin, 1979. Irish Protestants and the Experience of Rebellion. 2003. Printer to the City: John Exshaw, Lord Mayor of Dublin 1789-90. [2006] A Bibliography of Sir William Petty F.R.S. 1971. A History of the Dublin University Press 1734-1976, Dublin, 1994. The Kress Library of Business and Economics in Harvard. 4 vols. 1940-67. A Guide to Irish Fiction 1650 - 1900. Dublin, Four Courts, 2006. The Irish Character in Print. Dublin 1969. A William Butler Yeats Encyclopædia. Gold Tooled Bookbindings Commissioned by Trinity College in the 18th Century. Five Hundred years of the Art of the Bookbinder in Ireland. 1500 to the Present. Irish Writers of the 17th Century. 1974. Here’s to their Memory, & Sligo Sources. 1977 & 1988. Estates and Landed Society in Galway. 2012. Dolmen XXV Bibliography 1951-1976. A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland 1550-1775. New York, 1988. Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. Companion to Irish History, 1991. The Poets of Ireland. Dublin, 1912. Who’s Who in the Irish War of Independence. Dublin, 1980. A Bibliography of Irish Trials & other Legal Proceedings. Oxon, 1986. Four Hundred Irish Writers. The County Armagh Volunteers of 1778-1993. Printing and Book Production in Dublin 1670-1800. Dublin’s Trade in Books 1550-1800. Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade 1550-1800. The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats. His Cartoons and Illustrations. Dublin, 1994. Directory of Ireland. 1846. A Bibliography of James Joyce. London, 1953. A Short-Title Catalogue. 1475-1640. Ireland and the Printed Word 1475-1700. Dublin, 1997. A Bibliography of the Writings of W.B. Yeats. 1968. The Sign of Doctor Hay’s Head. Dublin 1958. The Works - Harris edition. Dublin 1764. A Compendium of Irish Biography. Dublin, 1878. Online Encyclopaedia. Short Title Catalogue of Books Published in England & English Books Published Abroad. Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC)
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A SELECTION OF FINE BOOKS FROM OUR PUBLISHING HOUSE B1. BÉASLAÍ, Piaras. Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland. Two volumes. A new introduction by Brian P. Murphy, O.S.B. With two portraits in full colour by Sir John Lavery, and other illustrations to each volume. This major work on Michael Collins is by one of his closest friends. An item which is now commanding in excess of four figures in the auction houses. Dublin: De Búrca, 2008. pp. (1) xxxii, 292, (2) vi, 328. The limited edition in full green goatskin gilt with a medallion portrait and signature of Collins also in gilt. Housed in a fine slipcase. It includes the list of subscribers. Last few copies. €475 The general edition is limited to 1,000 sets superbly bound in green buckram, with a medallion portrait embossed in gilt on the €95 upper covers, and in slipcase. Michael Collins (1890-1922), was born at Woodfield, Clonakilty, County Cork, the son of a small farmer. Educated locally, and at the age of sixteen went to London as a clerk in the Post Office. He joined the I.R.B. in London. During Easter Week he was Staff Captain and ADC to James Connolly in the GPO. With The O’Rahilly he led the first party out of the GPO immediately before its surrender. Arrested, imprisoned and released in December 1916. After the victory of Sinn Féin in the 1918 general election and the establishment of Dáil Éireann as the Irish parliament he was made Minister of Home Affairs and later Minister for Finance, and organised the highly successful National Loan. A most capable organiser with great ability and physical energy, courage and force of character, he was simultaneously Adjutant General of the Volunteers, Director of Organisation, Director of Intelligence and Minister for Finance. He organised the supply of arms for the Volunteers and set up a crack intelligence network and an execution squad nicknamed Twelve Apostles. He was for a long time the most wanted man in Ireland but he practically eliminated the British Secret Service with the Bloody Sunday morning operation.
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Edmund Burke Publisher Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland is the official biography of a great soldier-statesman and the first authentic history of the rebirth of a nation. Written with inner knowledge by an intimate friend and comrade-in-arms who served with Collins on Headquarters Staff and who shared in many of his amazing adventures and hairsbreadth escapes.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PETER HARBISON B2. BORLASE, William G. The Dolmens of Ireland. Their distribution, structural characteristics, and affinities in other countries; together with the folk-lore attaching to them; supplemented by considerations on the anthropology, ethnology, and traditions of the Irish people. With over 800 illustrations (including 3 coloured plates), and 4 coloured folding maps. Three volumes. Full buckram decorated in gilt to a Celtic design. With slipcase. Edition limited to 300 sets, with 'List of Subscribers'. â‚Ź295. The first comprehensive survey of each of the counties of Ireland. With sketches by the author from drawings by Petrie, Westropp, Miss Stokes, Windele, Wood-Martin, Wakeman, etc. The third volume contains an index and the material from folklore, legend, and tradition. A most attractive set of books and a must for the discerning collector.
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B3. BOURKE [de Búrca], Éamonn. Burke People and Places. With clan location maps, illustrations and 50 pages of genealogies. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher and Whitegate, Ballinakella Press, 2001. Fourth. pp. 173. Fine in stiff illustrated wraps. Enlarged with an extra 35 pages of genealogies. €20
B4. CHANDLER, Edward. Photography in Ireland. The Nineteenth Century. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2001. Folio. pp. xii, 44 (plates), 134. Fine in fine d.j. €20 LIMITED EDITION ONE OF THE RAREST OF ALL IRISH BOOKS B5. COLGAN, John. Triadis Thaumaturgae, seu Divorum Patricii, Columbae et Brigidae, trium veteris et maioris Scotiae, seu Hiberniae Sanctorum Insulae, Communium Patronorum Acta, a Variis, iisque pervetustis, ac Sanctis authoribus Scripta, ac studio R.P.F. Joannis Colgani, in Conventu FF Minor, Hibernor. strictior. observ. Louanii, S. Theologiae Lectorius Jubilati. Ex variis Bibliothecis collecta, Scholiis et commentariis illustrata, et pluribus Appendicibus aucta: complectitur Tomus Secundus Sacrarum ejusdem insulae Antiquitatum - Louvain 1647. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, 1997. We have republished ‘one of the rarest of all Irish books’, with a new introduction by Pádraig Ó Riain. The edition is limited to 300 copies, and handsomely bound in blue quarter morocco, title on spine, top edge gilt, red silk marker. Fine in slipcase. €190 Lecky described this volume: “as one of the most interesting collections of Lives of the saints in the world. It is very shameful that it has not been reprinted”. The new introduction by Pádraig Ó Riain, contains the first published account of Colgan’s recently discovered manuscript notes to the Triadis. This reprint should stimulate further the growing interest in the history of the Irish saints.
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B6. COSTELLO, Willie. A Connacht Man’s Ramble. Recollections of growing up in rural Ireland of the thirties and forties. With an introduction by Dr. Tom Mitchell. Illustrated by Gerry O’Donovan and front cover watercolour by James MacIntyre. Map on end-papers. Dublin: De Búrca, 2002. Fourth edition. pp. xii, 211. Fine in French flaps. €15 A deeply personal collection of memories and a valuable account of Irish history including cattle fairs, threshing, rural electrification, interspersed with stories of the matchmaker, the town crier, the chimney sweep and the blacksmith. Over two thousand copies sold in the first week of publication.
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Edmund Burke Publisher B7. COSTELLO, Willie. The Rambling House. Tales from the West of Ireland. Illustrated by Gerry O Donovan and front cover water-colour by James McIntyre. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003. pp. x, 111. Fine in French flaps. €15 B8. CUSACK, M.F. A History of the Kingdom of Kerry. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. pp. xvi, 453, 6 (extra maps), lxxxiii. Fine in full buckram, with illustrated coloured dustjacket depicting Jobson’s manuscript map of Kerry 1598. €45 Margaret Cusack’s History of the Kingdom of Kerry is an excellent work treating of the history, topography, antiquities and genealogy of the county. There is an excellent account of the families of: The O’Sullivans and MacCarthys; Geraldine Genealogies; The Knights of Kerry and Glyn; Population and Religion; Agricultural Information; St. Brendan; Dingle in the Sixteenth Century; Ardfert; The Geology and Botany of Kerry; Deep Sea Fisheries; Kerry Rivers and Fishing etc.
LIMITED EDITION B9. DALTON, Charles Ed. by. King Charles The Second’s Irish Army Lists, 1661 - 1685. Dublin: De Búrca, 2000. Second. pp. xxxiv, 176. Fine facsimile limited edition in quarter morocco gilt, head and tail bands, in slipcase. Signed and numbered by the publisher. €90 The original edition was published for private circulation and was limited to twenty copies only. The editor states that he made extensive use of the manuscripts of the Marquis of Ormonde, preserved at Kilkenny Castle, the calendared and uncalendared Irish State papers, the King’s Letter Books and Entry Books at the Public Record Office for the names of Officers serving on the Irish Establishment, 1661-1685. In December 1660, Sir Maurice Eustace, Lord Chancellor, Roger, Earl of Orrery, and Charles, Earl of Mountrath were appointed Lord Justices. Under the able rule of Orrery and Mountrath the Army in Ireland was reduced and remodelled. King Charles’s new army dates from 11th February, 1661 and when the Irish parliament met in May the Lord Chancellor informed the House that “there were twenty months” arrears due to the army. The patrons of military history while glancing at the list of officers appointed to command this army, will recognise the names of many Cromwellian field officers who had served in Ireland during the Commonwealth. One may wonder how these ‘renegades’ found their way into the new Royalist levies. The answer is that these same officers not only supported the Restoration but were eager in the King’s service afterwards. It transpired that many Cromwellians were retained in the Army of Ireland and had equal rights with those Royalists who had fought for Charles I and had shared the long exile of Charles II. From a purely military point of view they had learned the art of war under the most successful soldier of his time.
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Edmund Burke Publisher LIMITED EDITION B10. DE COURCY IRELAND, John. History of Dun Laoghaire Harbour. With numerous illustrations and maps. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2001. First edition. pp. xiv, 184. Limited edition of 50 copies, signed by the author and publisher. Bound in full maroon levant morocco, covers with a gilt anchor and sailing ship. Spine divided into five compartments by four gilt raised bands. T.e.g. A fine binding from the Harcourt Bindery, Boston. €500
Dun Laoghaire harbour, recognised as one of the most picturesque in Europe, was built early in the 19th century as the consequence of an explosion of popular anger at the continuous deaths from shipwreck in Dublin Bay. The most competent and experienced navigators at that time described the port of Dublin as the most perilous in the whole world for a ship to leave or approach in certain circumstances. Thanks largely to the efficiency and foresight of Captain Hutchison, the first Harbour Master, the port built as an ‘Asylum’ harbour or port of refuge, became with the introduction of steamdriven passenger and mail carrying ships the busiest port on the eastern shore of the Irish Sea, also a leading fishing port and popular yachting centre.
B11. DE COURCY IRELAND, John. History of Dun Laoghaire Harbour. With numerous illustrations and maps. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2002. Second edition. pp. xiv, 184. Fine in fine d.j. €20 B12. DONOHOE, Tony. The History of Crossmolina. Foreword by Thomas Gildea Cannon. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003. Roy 8vo. pp. xviii, 627. Buckram gilt in d.j. Very scarce. €90 The author Tony Donohoe, farmer and keen local historian has chronicled in great detail the history his ancestral parish from the early Christian period to the present. This authoritative work is the result of thirty years of meticulous research and is a most welcome contribution to the history of County Mayo. In the foreword Thomas Gildea Cannon states “Tony Donohoe has brought it all vividly to light in his impressive history. Using his treasure trove of published and unpublished materials, patiently accumulated over the decades, he has told the story of an ancient parish with a scholar’s eye for the telling detail ... has made effective use of the unpublished Palmer and Pratt estate papers to help 135
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B13. [FAMINE IN IRELAND] Transactions of the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends during the famine in Ireland, 1846 and 1847. With an index by Rob Goodbody. Dublin: De Búrca, 1996. pp. xliii, 529. Fine in buckram gilt. €35 It is difficult to read unmoved some of the detailed testimony contained in this volume of the reports of the envoys sent out by the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, who found out for themselves what was really going on during the Famine in remote country areas.
B14. GLEESON, Rev. John. Cashel of the Kings. A History of the Ancient Capital of Munster from the date of its foundation until the present day. Including historical notices of the Kings of Cashel from the 4th century to the 12th century. The succession of bishops and archbishops from St. Ailbe to the present day. Notices of the principal abbeys belonging to the territory around Cashel, together with items of local history down to the 19th century. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2001. pp. [ii], xix, 312. Fine in fine d.j. €40 Cover design by courtesy of Mr. Patrick Meaney, Cashel, County Tipperary. An important and scholarly work on one of the most celebrated places of historic interest in Ireland. In medieval times it was the ecclesiastical capital of Munster. Conquered by the Eoghanacht tribe (MacCarthys) led by Conall Corc in the fifth century who set up a fortress on St. Patrick’s Rock. They ruled over the fertile plains of Munster unchallenged and their title King of Cashel remained synonymous with that of King of Munster. In law and tradition the kings of Cashel knew no superior and did not acknowledge the overlordship of Tara for five hundred years. Fr. John Gleeson (1855-1927), historian, was born near Nenagh, County Tipperary into a wealthy farming family. Educated locally and at Maynooth. Appointed curate of Lorrha and Templederry, later parish priest of Lorrha and Knock in 1893 and Lorrha in 1908. A prolific writer and meticulous researcher, he also wrote History of the Ely O’Carroll Territory or Ancient Ormond.
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Edmund Burke Publisher B15. HARRISON, Alan. The Dean’s Friend. Anthony Raymond (1675-1726), Jonathan Swift and the Irish Language. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1999. pp. xv, 175. Fine in fine illustrated d.j. €35 The book introduces us to 17th and 18th century Ireland and to the interface between the two languages and the two cultures. It is a fascinating study of the troubled period after the Battle of the Boyne, encompassing historiography and antiquarianism; contemporary linguistic study and the sociolinguistics of the two languages in contact; Swift and his friends in that context; and the printing and publishing of books in Stuart and early-Georgian Ireland.
A CLASSIC OF THE GALLOGLAS FAMILIES B16. HAYES-McCOY, Gerard A. Scots Mercenary Forces in Ireland (1565-1603). An account of their service during that period, of the reaction of their activities on Scottish affairs, and of the effect of their presence in Ireland, together with an examination of the Gallóglaigh or Galloglas. With maps, illustrations and genealogies of the MacSweeneys, Clan Donald and the O’Neills of Tír Eoghain. With an introduction by Professor Eoin MacNeill. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 1996. pp. xxi, 391. Superb facsimile reprint, bound in full buckram, with head and tail bands. In coloured dustjacket depicting three galloglasses and an Irish Foot Soldier of the 16th century. €45 They were a force to be reckoned with. An English writer of the period described them as follows: “The galloglasses are picked and selected men of great and mighty bodies, cruel, without compassion. The greatest force of the battle consisteth in their choosing rather to die than to yield, so that when it cometh to handy blows, they are quickly slain or win the field. They are armed with a shirt of mail, a skull, and a skeine. The weapon they most use is a battle-axe, or halberd, six foot long, the blade wherof is somewhat like a shoemaker’s knife, and without pike; the stroke wherof is deadly”.
ANNALS OF ULSTER B17. HENNESSY, William M. & MacCARTHY, B. Ed. by. The Annals of Ulster, otherwise Annala Senait. A chronicle of Irish Affairs from A.D. 431 to A.D. 1540. With translation, notes, and index. New introduction by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Dublin: De Búrca, 1998. Four volumes. Full buckram gilt in slipcase. €285 Also available in a special limited edition of 50 sets, bound in full brown morocco gilt, signed by the publisher. €850 The important Annals of Ulster compiled by Cathal Og Mac Maghnusa at Seanaidh Mac Maghnusa, now Belle Isle in Lough Erne, were so named by the noted ecclesiastic, Ussher, on account of their containing many chronicles relating to that province. They contain more detail on ecclesiastical history than the Annals of the Four Masters, and were consulted by Br. Michael O’Clery, Chief of the Four Masters, for his masterpiece.
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Edmund Burke Publisher LIMITED EDITION B18. HENNESSY, William M. Ed. by. The Annals of Lough Cé. A chronicle of Irish affairs from A.D. 1014 to A.D. 1590. Edited and with a translation by W.M. Hennessy. With folding coloured plate of the TCD Ms. Two volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2000. Third. pp. (1) lix, 653, (2) 689. Bound in half green morocco on splash marbled boards. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands, title and volume in second and fourth, third and fifth tooled in gilt to a centre Celtic design. Green and gold head and tail bands. T.e.g. Superb in presentation slipcase. €450 These Annals were compiled under the patronage of Brian MacDermott, Chief of Moylurg, who resided in his castle on an island in Lough Key, near Boyle, County Roscommon. They begin with the Battle of Clontarf and continue up to 1636 treating on the whole with Irish affairs, but have many entries of English, Scottish and continental events. They are a primary source for the history of North Connaught. The compilers were of that noted learned family of O’Duignans. The only original copy of these Annals known to exist is a small vellum manuscript which was presented to Trinity by Dr. Leland in 1766.
B19. HENNESSY, William M. Ed. by. The Annals of Lough Cé. A chronicle of Irish affairs from A.D. 1014 to A.D. 1590. Edited and with a translation by W.M. Hennessy. With folding coloured plate of the TCD Ms. Two volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2000. Third. pp. (1) lix, 653, (2) 689. Superb set bound in full buckram gilt and in presentation slipcase. €110 HIS NEVER-FORGOTTEN COUNTRYSIDE ABOUT GLENOSHEEN B20. JOYCE, P.W. Irish Names of Places. With a new introductory essay on the life of P.W. Joyce by Mainchín Seoighe. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. Three volumes. pp. (1) xl, 589, (2) viii, 538, (3) x, 598. Fine. €165
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B21. KILROY, Patricia. Fall of the Gaelic Lords. 1534-1616. Dublin: By Éamonn De Búrca for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2008. pp. x, 192. Illustrated. Fine in illustrated d.j. €29.50 No period in Irish history is quite so full of drama, heroism and tragedy as the eighty-odd years from the mid 16th to the early 17th centuries: the age of the fall of the Gaelic lords. This intriguing and moving narrative recounts the passing of Gaelic Ireland when the Tudor Crown sought to subdue the island and the Irish chiefs defended their ancient territories and way of life. Beginning in 1534 with young Silken Thomas’ defiant stand at the gates of Dublin Castle, it tells the story of Red Hugh O’Donnell’s capture and escape, the rise of the Great Hugh O’Neill and the bloody Nine Years War culminating in the Battle of Kinsale, and finally, the Flight of the Earls. Animated with details from The Annals Of The Four Masters and other contemporary accounts, Fall Of The Gaelic Lords is a lively intelligent book aimed at both the historian and general reader. Patricia Kilroy was born in Ireland in 1925. As one of the daughters of Seán Lester, who would become the last Secretary-General of the League Of Nations, she spent most of her childhood in The Free City Of Danzig and in Geneva. She studied Modern History and Political Science in Trinity College Dublin. She then worked with the Irish Red Cross, settling refugees from Eastern Europe who had been displaced during World War II. After marrying and while raising her four children, her interest in history continued to grow. Family holidays in Connemara sparked her interest in local history, and talking with the people of the area, as well as academic research, led to the publication in 1989 of The Story Of Connemara. That book focused on a small part of Ireland, and covered from the Ice-Age to the present day; after which she felt she would like to cover the whole of Ireland, whilst focusing on one period in time. And so Fall Of The Gaelic Lords was researched and written. Patricia lives in Dublin.
B22. KNOX, Hubert Thomas. The History of the County of Mayo to the Close of the Sixteenth Century. With illustrations and three maps. Castlebourke: De Búrca, 2000. Roy. 8vo. pp. xvi, 451. Fine in fine d.j. €45 Prime historical reference work on the history of the County Mayo from the earliest times to 1600. It deals at length with the De Burgo Lordship of Connaught. Illustrated with a large folding detailed map of the county, coloured in outline. There are 49 pages of genealogies of the leading families of Mayo: O’Connor, MacDonnell Galloglass, Bourke Mac William Iochtar, Gibbons, Jennings, Philbin, Barret, Joyce, Jordan, Costello, etc.
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Edmund Burke Publisher LIMITED TO 200 COPIES B23. LOEBER, Rolf & Magda. Ed. by. Irish Poets and their Pseudonyms in Early Periodicals. Dublin: Edmund Burke Publisher, 2007. pp. xxii, 168. Fine in illustrated d.j. €65 Many Irish poems remain hidden in the periodicals and were published under pseudonyms. Therefore, the identity of hundred of Irish poets often is elusive. The discovery of a manuscript of pseudonyms of Irish poets made this volume possible. It lists over 1,200 pseudonyms for 504 Irish poets whose work appeared in over 500 early periodicals published in Ireland, England, North America, and Australia. Rolf Loeber and Magda Loeber are researchers at the medical school of the University of Pittsburgh. They have both extensively published on Irish history and literature. Their most recent book is A Guide to Irish Fiction (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006).
B24. LOHAN, Máire. An ‘Antiquarian Craze’. The life, times and work in archaeology of Patrick Lyons R.I.C. (1861-1954). Dublin: By Éamonn De Búrca for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2008. pp. xiv, 192. Illustrated. Fine in coloured illustrated stiff wraps. €19.50 Born in 1861, Sgt. Patrick Lyons, ‘The Antiquarian Policeman’, served with the Royal Irish Constabulary from 1886 - 1920. While stationed in the West of Ireland, he developed a keen interest in documenting the fieldmonuments he noticed on his patrols. His discovery of four ogham stones led to a correspondence with Hubert Knox, a renowned Mayo Antiquarian; Lyons provided Knox with important descriptions of field monuments, contributing to 19 published papers. Out of modesty, and fear that the R.I.C. would frown on his ‘antiquarian craze’, he preferred not to be acknowledged by name, although he was much admired for his fine mind and dedicated antiquarian ‘policework’ by those few with whom he shared his interest. To bring to light his remarkable work, this book draws on Lyons’ own notes and photographs (preserved by N.U.I. Galway and the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland), archived local newspapers and an overview of the social and political history of his times. A quiet, unassuming man, Lyons died in 1954 and lies buried in an unmarked grave in his native Clonmel. His major contribution to Irish archaeology deserves to be acknowledged in print at last. Máire Lohan (née Carroll) was born in Belmullet, County Mayo and now lives in Galway city. While researching for an M.A. in Archaeology at U.C.G. she became aware of the Lyons Photographic Collection there and also of the Knox/Lyons Collection at the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, around which this book is based. She has worked with the O.P.W. in the Archaeological Survey of County Galway, lectured in archaeology at R.T.C. Galway and excavated in Galway city. She has published articles in the Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society and Cathair na Mart. This is her first book.
B25. MacEVILLY, Michael. A Splendid Resistance. A Life of IRA Chief of Staff Dr. Andy Cooney. Foreword by Sean O Mahony. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2011. pp. xix, 427. Paperback in coloured illustrated French flaps. €20 Hardback in coloured illustrated dustjacket. €50 Limited edition of 50 copies in full green morocco gilt, in slipcase. €225 The appointment of Andy (Andrew) Cooney as Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) while still a medical student was the highpoint of a military career which began in 1917 and was not to end until 1944. Prior to this he had served as a Volunteer, GHQ Officer, Brigade Commander and Divisional Commander before being appointed to the IRA General Staff with the rank of Quartermaster-General in 1924 and Chief of Staff in 1925, at which time he was elected as Chairman of the IRA Executive. Cooney was to retain this post until 1927. Afterwards, he remained close to the IRA General Staff until he emigrated to the USA. 140
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Michael MacEvilly’s meticulously researched life of Dr. Andy Cooney sheds valuable light on a chapter of Irish republicanism which has hitherto been seriously neglected. No student of Irish republican history can afford to ignore this book, which is also to be commended for its selection of many hitherto unpublished photographs. - Tim Pat Coogan. Michael MacEvilly narrates the life story of Andy Cooney in compelling fashion. Readers will be fascinated by the manner in which a young man combined his studies to be a doctor with his duties as an IRA Volunteer from 1917 onwards. In terms of the wider historical narrative of the period, the book, using much original source material, makes an important new contribution. It makes clear the command structure of the IRA, at both a national and local level, during the War of Independence, the Civil War and beyond. The strengths and weaknesses of individuals are also delineated with remarkable clarity. In particular new information is provided on ‘Bloody Sunday,’ November 1920; the role of the IRB and Michael Collins at the time of the Treaty; and the differences between the IRA and de Valera when Fianna Fail was founded. Above all the book is extremely well researched and eminently readable. - Brian Murphy OSB. Michael MacEvilly was born in Castlebar, Co. Mayo. He was educated at St. Jarlath’s College, Tuam, Co. Galway and subsequently studied Arts and Commerce at University College, Galway. He worked as an accountant and auditor in his own firm located in Dublin, and had a long association with and interest in the Irish Judo Association and the Olympic Council of Ireland. Irish history and the Irish language were Michael’s major interests. This primarily stemmed from his detailed research of the history of the MacEvilly family, especially their involvement in the War of Independence of which he was particularly proud. Irish republican history was an enduring passion and he became a keen scholar and book-collector on the area. He was an active member of the Committee of the 1916-21 Club and was President from 2000 to 2001. Michael passed away in 2009. He is sadly missed by his family and friends.
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EDITION LIMITED TO 10 SIGNED SETS B26. MacFHIRBHISIGH, Dubhaltach. The Great Book of Irish Genealogies - Leabhar Genealach. Edited, with translation and indices by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. List of subscribers. Five volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003/4. 4to. Bound in qtr green morocco on cloth boards. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands. Title and author/editor on maroon morocco letterpieces in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt to an interlacing Celtic design. White endbands. Top edge gilt. Edition limited to ten sets only, signed by the Publisher and Editor. €1,650 The great Connacht scholar Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (c.1600-1671), from Lackan, County Sligo, compiled his monumental Great Book of Genealogies in Galway at the height of the Cromwellian Wars in the mid-seventeenth century. The work has long been recognised as the most important source for the study of Irish family history, and it is also of great importance to historians of pre-17th century Ireland since it details the ancestry of many significant figures in Irish history - including: Brian Boroimhe (d.1014); Ulick Burke, Marquis of Clanricarde (d.1657); James Butler, Duke of Ormonde (d.1688); Somhairle Buidhe (Sorley Boy) MacDonnell (d.1589); Randal MacDonnell, Marquis of Antrim (d.1683); Garrett Óg Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare (d.1536); Diarmuid Mac Murchadha (d.1171); Myler Magrath, Archbishop of Cashel (d.1622), Murrough O’Brien, Baron of Inchiquin (d.1674); Feagh MacHugh O’Byrne (d.1597); Rory O’Conor.(d.1198); Red Hugh O’Donnell (d.1602); Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone (d.1616); Owen Roe O’Neill (d.1649), and many, many more.
Both in terms of size and significance the Great Book of Genealogies is on a par with that other great seventeenth century compilation, the Annals of the Four Masters; and O’Donovan did edit a thirty-page extract from the book, making it the centrepiece of his second greatest work, The Genealogies, Tribes and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach (1844). But while quite a few other (almost invariably brief) extracts from the work have appeared in print over the past century and a half, some 90% of the Book of Genealogies has never hitherto been translated or published.
B27. MacFHIRBHISIGH, Dubhaltach The Great Book of Irish Genealogies - Leabhar Genealach. Edited, with translation and indices by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. List of subscribers. Five volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003/4. 4to. Full buckram gilt. Over 3,600 pages. Full buckram gilt, in presentation box. €635
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The original text, both prose and poetry, of both works is accompanied by a painstaking English translation. But, perhaps most important of all, the edition includes, in addition to several valuable appendices, a comprehensive series of indices which provide a key to the tens of thousands of personal names, surnames, tribal names and place-names that the work contains. In fact, the portion relating to personal names is the largest Irish language names index that has ever been compiled.
B28. MARTIN, Edward A. A Dictionary of Bookplates of Irish Medical Doctors. With short biographies. Illustrated. Dublin: De BĂşrca, 2003. pp. xiv, 160. Illustrated boards in d.j. â‚Ź36
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Edmund Burke Publisher B29. MELVIN, Patrick. Estates and Landed Society in Galway. With a foreword by Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, December, 2012. pp. 512. Full buckram gilt. And a limited edition of 50 copies only in full goatskin. Standard edition €75 Limited edition €255 This work is based on a Trinity College Dublin Ph.D. thesis prepared under the direction of Professor L.M. Cullen. It investigates and describes the varied origins and foundation of estates and proprietors in Galway and how that process was affected by the political turmoils and transplantations of the 17th century. The aftermath of these turmoils in England and Ireland saw the establishment of a core number of successful estates founded largely by ambitious families able to trim their sails to changing times and opportunities. Alongside these estates there remained at the same time a fluctuating mass of smaller proprietors whose lands frequently fell to more able or business-like landowners. Penal laws and poor land quality resulted in exile – sometimes temporary - for many of the older Catholic landowners.
The book describes how, by the 19th century, the variously rooted strands of proprietors became bound together by the common interest of property, security and class and survived with their social if not political influence largely intact through the 19th century. The role of this large and diverse gentry class in local administration, politics, social life and as landlords is described in some detail. The size of the county and complexity of changing estate history prevents the book from being exhaustive or a complete history of all estates and gentry families. These Anglo-Irish families (the term is unsatisfactory) became largely sidelined, irrelevant and forgotten by the modern nationalist Irish state. Their numbers and variety in Galway is made clear through a large range of house illustrations. Many of the old landed class and nobility embodied values worthwhile in society. The wealthiest were patrons of much of the culture and art of old Europe. They stood for continuity, tradition, a sense of public duty, standards and refinement in manners. Many of them fostered the pursuit of outdoor sports and horseracing. They linked their frequently remote places to the wider world and they were at the same time cosmopolitan and local without being parochial. Although a declining social force they frequently held liberal attitudes against the power and dominance of
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B30. NELSON, E. Charles & WALSH, Wendy F. An Irish Flower Garden Replanted. The Histories of Some of Our Garden Plants. With coloured and Chinese ink illustrations by Wendy F. Walsh. Second edition revised and enlarged. Dublin: Edmund Burke Publisher, 1997. pp. x, 276. €65 “This book has been out of print for almost a decade, and in the intervening years many things have happened both in my own life and in the interwoven lives of my friends and colleagues, and gardens and their plants. I have also learnt more about the garden plants that we cultivate in Ireland. A new edition was required, and I have taken the opportunity to augment the original text. I have added a chapter on roses, based on my address to the ninth World Rose Convention held in Belfast during 1991, and I have drawn into this book, in edited form, a scattering of essays that were published elsewhere and the unpublished scripts for talks which I gave on Sunday Miscellany broadcast by Radio Telefis Eireann. I have also made corrections, and altered a few names to bring them up-to-date. In a few instances, the previously published history has been revised in the light of my more recent research” - Dr. E.C. Nelson. The book is lavishly illustrated by Wendy Walsh, with 21 coloured plates (including ten new watercolours for this edition), eighteen figures in Chinese inks and nine vignettes in pencil.
A MONUMENT TO ONE OF OUR GREAT CELTIC SCHOLARS B31. O’CURRY, Eugene. On The Manners and Customs of The Ancient Irish. A series of lectures delivered by the late Eugene O’Curry, M.R.I.A., Professor of Irish History and Archaeology in the Catholic University of Ireland. Edited, appendices etc, by W.K. Sullivan. With a new introduction by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Three volumes. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 1996. Bound in full green buckram, with harp in gilt on upper covers. Head and tail bands. pp. (1) xviii, 664, (2), xix, 392 (3) xxiv, 711. Fine. €235 O’Curry’s twenty-one Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History, delivered at the College during the terms 1855 and 1856 were published with an appendix in one volume. They are a mine of information on the subject of our Irish manuscripts and are illustrated with numerous facsimile specimens. His thirty-eight lectures On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, delivered at the University between May 1857 and July 1862 (the last one only a fortnight before his death) were published in Dublin in three volumes. These were edited with an introduction (which takes up the whole of the first volume), appendices and other material by Dr. W.K. Sullivan. O’Curry’s works stand to this day as a monument to one of our greatest Celtic scholars. Dr. Nollaig Ó Muraíle states: “This, the single most substantial work produced by one of the great pioneering figures who laid the foundations of modern Irish scholarship in the fields of Gaelic language and literature, 145
Edmund Burke Publisher medieval history and archaeology, has been exceedingly difficult to come by (even in some reputable libraries) for the best part of a century. It is therefore greatly to be welcomed that it is now being made available again, by De Búrca Books - not just for the sake of present day scholars but also for the general reader who will derive from its pages much enjoyment and enlightenment about the lifestyle and general culture of our ancient forebears”.
B32. O’DONOVAN, John. Ed. by. Annála Ríoghachta Éireann - Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters. From the earliest times to the year 1616. Edited from the manuscript in the Royal Irish Academy and Trinity College Dublin, with copious historical, topographical and genealogical notes and with special emphasis on place-names. Seven large vols. With a new introduction by Kenneth Nicholls. Dublin: De Búrca, 1998. Over 4,000 pages. Large 4to. Superb set in gilt and blind stamped green buckram, in presentation box. €865
This is the third and best edition as it contains the missing years [1334-1416] of the now lost Annals of Lecan from Roderic O’Flaherty’s transcript. To enhance the value of this masterpiece a colour reproduction of Baptista Boazio’s map of Ireland 1609 is included in a matching folder. The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, Annála Ríoghachta Éireann or the Annals of the Four Masters to give them their best known title are the great masterpieces of Irish history from the earliest times to 1616 A.D. The work was compiled between 1632 and 1636 by a small team of historians headed by Br. Michael O’Clery, a Franciscan lay brother. He himself records: “there was collected by me all the best and most copious books of Annals that I could find throughout all Ireland, though it was difficult for me to collect them in one place”. The great work remained, for the most part, unpublished and untranslated until John O’Donovan prepared his edition between 1847 and 1856. The crowning achievement of John O’Donovan’s edition is the copious historical, topographical and genealogical material in the footnotes which have been universally acclaimed by scholars. Douglas Hyde wrote that the O’Donovan edition represented: “the greatest work that any modern Irish scholar ever accomplished”. More recently Kenneth Nicholls says: “O’Donovan’s enormous scholarship breathtaking in its extent when one considers the state of historical scholarship and the almost total lack of published source material in his day, still amazes one, as does the extent to which it has been depended on by others 146
Edmund Burke Publisher down to the present. His translations are still superior in reliability to those of Hennessy, MacCarthy or Freeman to name three editor-translators of other Irish Annals ... his footnotes are a mine of information”. A superb set of this monumental source for the history of Ireland.
B33. SWEENEY, Tony. Catalogue Raisonné of Irish Stuart Silver. A Short Descriptive Catalogue of Surviving Irish Church, Civic, Ceremonial & Domestic Plate dating from the Reigns of James I, Charles I, The Commonwealth, Charles II, James II, William & Mary, William III & Queen Anne 1603-1714. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. Folio. pp. 272. In a fine buckram binding by Museum Bookbinding and printed in Dublin by Betaprint. Signed and numbered limited edition of 400 copies, 360 of which are for sale. Fine in illustrated d.j. €135 Compiled from records of holdings by Cathedrals, Churches, Religious Houses, Colleges, Municipal Corporations, Museums & Art Galleries. Further information has been obtained from those who deal in and those who collect Antique Silver, with special regard to Auction Sales.
DE-LUXE LIMITED EDITION B34. SWEENEY, Tony & Annie, & HYLAND, Francis. The Sweeney Guide to the Irish Turf from 1501-2001. Owners, Trainers, Jockeys, Sires, Records, Great Races, Flat & Jumping, Places of Sport, Past & Present, The Dish Spiced with Anecdotes, Facts, Fancies. Profusely illustrated with coloured plates. Dublin: De Búrca, 2002. Folio. pp. 648. Edition limited to 25 numbered copies only, signed by the partners, publisher and binder. Bound in full green niger oasis by Des Breen. Upper cover tooled in gilt with a horseshoe enclosing a trefoil with the heads of ‘Sadler’s Wells’, ‘Arkle’ and ‘Nijinsky’, above lake waters (SWAN-LAKE). Splash-marbled end-papers; green and cream head and tail bands. All edges gilt. With inset CD carrying the full text of the work making it possible for subscribers to enter results subsequent to 2001. In this fashion it becomes a living document. This is the only copy remaining of the Limited Edition. €1,650 Apart from racing enthusiasts, this is a most valuable work for students of local history as it includes extensive county by county records of race courses and stud farms, with hitherto unfindable details. The late Dr. Tony Sweeney, Anglo-Irish racing journalist and commentator, was Irish correspondent of the Daily Mirror for 42 years. He shared RTE television commentary with Michael and Tony O’Hehir 147
Edmund Burke Publisher over a period of thirty-five years. Dr. Sweeney was also a form analyst with the Irish Times, and author of two previous books Irish Stuart Silver, a Catalogue Raisonné (1995) and Ireland and the Printed Word (1997), for which he was awarded a Doctorate of Literature by the National University of Ireland. His late wife Annie, a former French stage and screen ballet dancer whose film credits included L’Homme au Parapluie Vert starring Fernanded and Chanteur de Mexico with Luis Mariano. For over a quarter of a century, in her role as turf statistician, she supplied the Irish Times with course facts and figures. Francis Hyland a former stockbroker turned bookmaker is currently chairman of the Irish National Bookmakers Association. A passionate racing researcher, he co-authored with Guy St. John Williams, histories of the ‘Irish Derby’ and the ‘Jameson Irish Grand National’.
B35. SWEENEY, Tony & Annie, & HYLAND, Francis. The Sweeney Guide to the Irish Turf from 1501-2001. Owners, Trainers, Jockeys, Sires, Records, Great Races, Flat & Jumping, Places of Sport, Past & Present, The Dish Spiced with Anecdotes, Facts, Fancies. Profusely illustrated with coloured plates. Dublin: De Búrca, 2002. Folio. pp. 648. Bound in full buckram gilt. €95 B36. TALBOT, Hayden. Michael Collins’ Own Story. Told to Hayden Talbot. With an introduction by Éamonn de Búrca. Dublin: De Búrca, November, 2012. pp. 256, plus index. Full buckram gilt. And a limited edition of 50 copies only in full goatskin. Standard edition €45 Limited edition €375
The American journalist Hayden Talbot first met Michael Collins at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin, shortly after the signing of the Anglo-Irish treaty in December 1921. In the course of his working career Talbot had met many important people, but he soon realised that Collins was one of the most remarkable. He admits he had underestimated Collins before he got to know him, but Collins quickly earned his respect not least by his habit of treating everyone, from Arthur Griffith to the “lowliest of his supporters”, with equal consideration and politeness. Talbot made it his business to meet Collins as often as possible and during months of close association Collins impressed him as “the finest character it had ever been my 148
Edmund Burke Publisher good fortune to know”. He valued their friendship more than any other. This work contains an invaluable insight into Collins’ thinking and actions during this epic period of Irish history. It deals at length with Easter Week, The Black and Tans, The Murder of Francis Sheehy Skeffington, the Treaty negotiations and his vision for the resurgent nation which, unfortunately he was given too little time to develop in practice. Rare interviews with Arthur Griffith and Eoin MacNeill further enhance this book, which has long been out of print and hard to find in the antiquarian book market. Originally published in 1922, our edition has a new introduction and an index which was not in the first edition.
B37. WALDRON, Jarlath. Maamtrasna. The Murders and The Mystery. With location map and engineers map of the route taken by the murderers in 1882, depicting the roads, rivers, mountains, and houses with names of occupants. With numerous illustrations and genealogical chart of the chief protagonists. Dublin: De Búrca, 2004. Fifth edition. pp. 335. Mint in illustrated wrappers with folding flaps. €20 “This is a wonderful book, full of honour, contrast and explanation … driven with translucent compassion … The author has done something more than resurrect the ghosts of the misjudged. He has projected lantern slides of a past culture, the last of Europe’s Iron Age, the cottage poor of the west of Ireland”. Frank Delaney, The Sunday Times.
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FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION B38. McDONNELL, Joseph. Cork Gold-Tooled Bookbindings of the 18th and 19th Centuries. A Forgotten Heritage. Folio. A limited edition of 250 copies. Illustrated with colour and mono plates. Ninety six pages, quarto. There will be a printed list of, we would very much appreciate your patronage.
Price approximately ₏150. This new study reveals for the first time the importance of Cork as a centre of de luxe bookbinding during the eighteenth century, and dispels the widely held belief that only Dublin produced sumptuous gold-tooled bindings during the same period. Examples range from school book prizes, estate maps, to the grandest folios, many previously described in library and booksellers’ catalogues as Dublin workmanship. Cork is well known for its famous 18th. and 19th. century silver and glass, but now its forgotten heritage of fine bookbinding will be revealed as equally rich and distinctive, attesting to the flourishing book trade in the city. The limited edition volume will consist of an introductory essay, followed by a fully illustrated and detailed catalogue of the bindings and tools.
We apologise for the delay in publishing this important work. We hope to have it available in the autumn. Your patronage, as always, will be very much appreciated. For those of you who have already subscribed, can you please confirm that you still want to go ahead. New subscribers are indeed most welcome.
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